savoir vivre
noun
savoir vi·vre
-¦vēvr(ᵊ),
-v(rə)
: ability to live elegantly : observance of the usages of fashionable society
Word History
Etymology
French savoir-vivre, literally, knowing how to live
First Known Use
1745, in the meaning defined above
- acid heat test
- acid house
- acid humus
- acid indigestion
- acid jazz
- acid man
- acid number
- acid phosphatase
- acid phosphate
- acid precipitation
- acid process
- acid radical
- acid rain
- acid resist
- acid rock
- acid sludge
- acid snow
- acid sodium carbonate
- acid test
- acid tests
- acid value
- acid wood
- acid-binding
- acid-fast
- acid-free