comme il faut
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It was not quite comme il faut that the Barons should presume to speak to the boy.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2017
He never met her but kept in touch by phone for long stretches from 1977 to 2003, out of a genteel sense of comme il faut, according to his deposition.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2013
Ms. Caldwell makes everything Alice does seem comme il faut — and that includes keeping a copy of Mr. Adjmi’s text in front of her.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2011
A man turns out a simple little mechanism to make melon balls, and it's no longer comme il faut to toss a plain hunk of melon into a fruit salad ...
From Time Magazine Archive
I am no silvery-scaled monster, but both on land and in water a woman comme il faut.
From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von
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