Meaning of bienséance | Babel Free

Definitions

Propriety, decorum.

uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“In the evening it was very different; and, bred in a country where much attention is paid, or was at least then paid, to bienseance, I was desirous to think for Miss Vernon concerning those points of propriety where her experience did not afford her the means of thinking for herself.”

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