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ETIQUETTE

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 852 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ETIQUETTE , a See also:

term for ceremonial usage, the rules of behaviour observed in society, more particularly the formal rules of ceremony to be observed at See also:court functions, &c., the See also:procedure, especially with regard to See also:precedence and promotions in an organized See also:body or society. Professions, such as the See also:law or See also:medicine, observe a See also:code of etiquette, which the members must observe as protecting the dignity of the profession and preventing injury to its members. The word is See also:French. The 0. Fr. estiquette or estiquet meant a See also:label, or " See also:ticket," the true See also:English derivative. The ultimate origin is See also:Teutonic, from sticken, to See also:post up, stick, affix. See also:Cotgrave explains the word in French as a See also:billet for the benefit or See also:advantage of him that receives it, a See also:form of introduction and also a See also:notice affixed at the See also:gate of a court of law. The development of meaning in French from a label to ceremonial rules is not difficult in itself, but, as the New English See also:Dictionary points out, the See also:history has not been clearly established.

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