bon-ton

An old-style book that I find very cute (using a font resembling a child's handwriting), kind (the turtle apologises to the lion when he finds himself in the lion's den by mistake) and with a friendly touch of bon-ton (the zebras bow when they meet Susanna).

Juliet Linley: The Monkey That Received a Spanking 2009

Basically, they're a size Small for anywhere else...some of the more bon-ton shops in the US, I find, have these odd sizing problems, whereas others say JC Penneys, etc.

The government is here to help you with your body image problems. Ann Althouse 2007

The flame of beauism was expiring; but it flamed in its socket brighter than ever, and Beau Brummell made a more conspicuous figure in the supreme _bon-ton_ of elegant absurdity, than any or all his predecessors.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various

Neither is the matter much mended, if, barring the insipidity of bon-ton company, you plunge into the formal gravity of the middle classes, or into the noisy, empty mirth of the lower.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828 Various

Great minds, like George Eliot's, when they wish to spend their genius in written books, will leave the lighted hall where refinement and _bon-ton_ hold their nightly revels, and will descend to the huts of laborers and mechanics that form one distinct phase of English life.

Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense [pseud.] Vera

Emmerich was not a common mender of "old soles," but was the shoemaker to the bon-ton of Baltimore.

Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After Henry Bascom Smith

In this respect Honor found Madame d'Alberg different from that other class of society women whose ideas of self-gratification are far subservient to the requisites of _bon-ton_ and fashion, and who endure heroically the discomfort of the latest absurdities in articles of toilet and street wear.

Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense [pseud.] Vera

In this non-committal way he gave his comment, for he usually found a bit of classical wisdom to fit modern emergencies, and the habit had imparted an antique bon-ton to his conversation.

The Man Between: An International Romance 1906

The parents of some of the wealthiest people of Kansas City, the bon-ton of the town, smelled of laundry soap, the curry-comb or night-soil cart.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

The City of London are ready to hoist their standard; treason is the bon-ton at that end of the town; seditious papers pasted up at every corner: nay, my neighbourhood is not unfashionable; we have had them at Brentford and Kingston.

Letters of Horace Walpole 01 Walpole, Horace 1890