Read full poem →d'y parvenir, est de lire avec attention les meilleurs livres,
et de remarquer comment les gens comme il faut et ceux
qui parlent le mieux, s'expriment; car les boutiquiers,
Dictionary Entry
Proper; in keeping with etiquette or social standards.
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“2007: Talking during performances is perfectly comme il faut in Wharton – why else go to a show if not to talk to one’s friends? – so while Miss Shaw, up to her bosom in dirt, went on about existence, I asked my female companion for advice. — Deborah Friedell, ‘Short Cuts’, London Review of Books 29:5”
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Poetry examples for “comme il faut”
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