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de·co·rum
 (d  -kôr   m, -k  r -)
KEY
NOUN:
- 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).
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decorums
The conventions or requirements of polite behavior:
the formalities and decorums of a military funeral.
- 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.
ETYMOLOGY:
Latin decrum, from decrus, becoming, handsome ; see
decorous
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