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moral and social behaviour that is considered to be correct and acceptable opposite impropriety得体的举止;有分寸的行为 - the proprieties[plural]
the rules of correct behaviour synonym etiquette行为规范;礼节;规矩
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘peculiarity, essential quality’): from Old French propriete, from Latin proprietas, from proprius ‘one's own, particular’.