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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French bienséance.
Noun
bienséance (uncountable)
- Propriety, decorum.
1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter I, in Rob Roy. , volume II, Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. ; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 22:In the evening it was very different; and, bred in a country where much attention is paid, or was at least then paid, to bienseance, I was desirous to think for Miss Vernon concerning those points of propriety where her experience did not afford her the means of thinking for herself.
French
Etymology
From bienséant + -ance.
Pronunciation
Noun
bienséance f (plural bienséances)
- propriety
- Synonym: convenance
- Antonym: inconvenance
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