comme il faut

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French comme il faut (as it should be).

Pronunciation

Adjective

comme il faut (comparative more comme il faut, superlative most comme il faut)

  1. Proper; in keeping with etiquette or social standards.
    • 2007: Talking during performances is perfectly comme il faut in Wharton – why else go to a show if not to talk to one’s friends? – so while Miss Shaw, up to her bosom in dirt, went on about existence, I asked my female companion for advice. — Deborah Friedell, ‘Short Cuts’, London Review of Books 29:5

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