Meaning of moeurs | Babel Free

Definitions

Ce qui concerne les habitudes morales du pays et du temps dont il est question dans un poème, dans une pièce de théâtre, ce qui est conforme au caractère des personnages qui y sont introduits.

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Examples

“Georgie was already becoming a little bit bohemian, absorbed into the moeurs of the Pre-Raphaelite world.”

“The historiography suggests the eighteenth century peninsular reformers saw a separation between the state as part of the European realm of moeurs and civilisation, and the Empire as the vast swathes of land that belonged to the monarchy.”

CEFR level