Decorum vs Curtesy - What's the difference?
decorum | curtesy |
(uncountable) Appropriate social behavior; propriety
* 2010 — , This Isn't What It Looks Like , ch. 4
(countable) A convention of social behavior
The tenure that a man is entitled to over the property of his deceased wife if there is a child who could inherit it.
As nouns the difference between decorum and curtesy
is that decorum is decorum while curtesy is the tenure that a man is entitled to over the property of his deceased wife if there is a child who could inherit it.decorum
English
Noun
- It was sort of a finishing school. You know, to teach proper social decorum and so on and so forth.
