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What (who) is couth - definition

CUSTOMARY CODE OF POLITE BEHAVIOUR
Etiquet; Manners; Office etiquette; Office Etiquette; Courteous; Common courtesy; Worldwide etiquette; Etiquette Worldwide; Business etiquette; Business Etiquette; Etiquettes; Business custom; Business manners; Ettiquette; Proprietry; Uncourteousness; Uncourtesy; Uncourtesies; Courteousness; Courteously; Proprieties; Mu'aasharat; International Etiquette; Common Courtesy; Social etiquette; Good Manners; Couth; Propriety
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  • In ''High-Change in Bond Street, – ou – la Politesse du Grande Monde'' (1796), [[James Gillray]] caricatured the lack of etiquette in a group of men who are depicted leering at women and crowding them off the sidewalk.
  • At the Palace of Versailles, King [[Louis XIV]] used complicated ''étiquette'' to manage and control his courtiers and their politicking.

couth         
[ku:?]
¦ adjective humorous refined and well mannered.
Origin
C19: back-form. from uncouth.
Couth         
·Impf & ·p.p. Could; was able; knew or known; understood.
couth         
Cool, hip opposite of uncouth.
That party last night was pretty couth.

Wikipedia

Etiquette

Etiquette () is the set of norms of personal behaviour in polite society, usually occurring in the form of an ethical code of the expected and accepted social behaviours that accord with the conventions and norms observed and practised by a society, a social class, or a social group. In modern English usage, the French word étiquette (label and tag) dates from the year 1750.

Examples of use of couth
1. Hey, nice hat!" –– would perhaps have lacked the requisite couth.
2. Instead, the plan is to develop six corridors that not only go from east to west, but also from north to couth, connecting the Central Asian republics, Russia and China with South Asia and the Persian Gulf countries.