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  • noun Plural form of decorum.

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Examples

  • Now I think I would shy away from a Tom Cruise movie just for decorums sake.

    May 2007 2007

  • Now I think I would shy away from a Tom Cruise movie just for decorums sake.

    POLL RESULTS: Our Favorite Tom Cruise Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film 2007

  • I wish our society still had cultural, non-religious traditions like wearing black for a year after a death, if only as a way of alerting other people that the wearer is in a bad place and won't always be able to maintain social decorums.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Susan Palwick 2007

  • I wish our society still had cultural, non-religious traditions like wearing black for a year after a death, if only as a way of alerting other people that the wearer is in a bad place and won't always be able to maintain social decorums.

    When There's Nothing to Say Susan Palwick 2007

  • Pass from Gibraltar to Mequinez, and the decencies and decorums of life are no longer the same; you no longer find the same ideas.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • There are, my dear Miss Howe, a multitude of punctilios and decorums, which a young creature must dispense with, who, in a situation like mine, makes a man the intimate attendant of her person.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • He seems to have taken the decorums of life with a confiding good faith, to have been shy and innocent in a suppressed sort of way, and of a mental type not made for worldly successes; but he must have dreamt about her and loved her well enough.

    A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

  • But no decorums could restrain the impatience of his blushing mistress to be forgiven.

    The Vicar of Wakefield 2004

  • The slave, of course, need not verbally respond to all such permissions, and such, but it is expected that his behavior will be in accord with the decorums of obedience.

    Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988

  • The slave, of course, need not verbally respond to all such permission, and such, but it is expected that his behavior will be in accord with the decorums of obedience. “You may continue on your way, ” I said to the three of them, releasing them from the custody of my will. “Come along, ” said one of the two fellows to the slave.

    Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988

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