segunda-feira, agosto 06, 2007
First man, first use
In 'The First Man in Rome', Colleen McCullough has a Roman use the word 'etiquette'.
Meaning 'prescribed behavior', it is a word more of the XVIII century (1750). It comes from the French 'estiquette' (label, ticket), the sense having developed from the small cards written or printed with instructions for how to behave properly at court and/or from behavior instructions written on a soldier's billet for lodgings (the main sense of the original word).
So, there you go, from the presumptuous reviewer.
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Meaning 'prescribed behavior', it is a word more of the XVIII century (1750). It comes from the French 'estiquette' (label, ticket), the sense having developed from the small cards written or printed with instructions for how to behave properly at court and/or from behavior instructions written on a soldier's billet for lodgings (the main sense of the original word).
So, there you go, from the presumptuous reviewer.
