de·co·rum 
(dĭ-kôrəm)
(dĭ-kôrəm)n.
1. Appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety: "In the Ireland of the 1940's ... the stolidity of a long, empty, grave face was thought to be the height of decorum and profundity" (John McGahern).
2. decorums The conventions or requirements of polite behavior: the formalities and decorums of a military funeral.
3. The appropriateness of an element of an artistic or literary work, such as style or tone, to its particular circumstance or to the composition as a whole.
[Latin decōrum, from decōrus, becoming, handsome; see DECOROUS.]
- sugar of lead
- sugar of milk
- sugar orchard
- sugar pea
- sugar pine
- sugarplum
- "Sugar Ray."
- "Sugar Ray."
- co-ed
- coedit
- coeditor
- coeducation
- coeducational
- coeducationally
- coefficient
- coefficient of correlation
- coefficient of friction
- coefficient of self-induction
- coefficient of viscosity
- -coel
- coelacanth
- coelacanthine
- coelacanthous
- -coele
- coelenterate