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What does decorum mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) Appropriate social behavior; propriety
  2. (countable) A convention of social behavior
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Also, please do ignore these boorish Yanks who go about their business with flagrant disregard for military decorum and totally without charm.
Other positive characteristics of the Saturnian type are what may be termed the good old-fashioned values of courtesy, decorum, and propriety.
Principles associated with classicism include order, proportion, balance, harmony, decorum, and avoidance of excess.
The idea of decorum had its strongest hold on the traditions of portraiture of nobles and worthies.
The concert hall is a gerontocracy, its decorum enforced more rigidly than in places of worship, its exclusiveness innate.
Such moments set the tenor for the place, where a sense of old-fashioned decorum co-exists with informality.

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