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Comme Il Faut

Definition: Comme Il Faut

Comme Il Faut

Adjective

1. According with custom or propriety; "her becoming modesty"; "comely behavior"; "it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money"; "a decent burial"; "seemly behavior".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Comme Il Faut

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Literature

Comme il Faut (French, pronounce cum eel fo), as it should be; quite proper; quite according to etiquette or rule. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Synonyms: Comme Il Faut

Synonyms: becoming (adj), comely (adj), decent (adj), decorous (adj), seemly (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Comme Il Faut

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Fashion

Adjective: fashionable; in fashion; Noun: a la mode, comme il faut; admitted in society, admissible in society; Noun: presentable; conventional; (customary); genteel; well-bred, well mannered, well behaved, well spoken; gentlemanlike, gentlemanly; ladylike; civil, polite; (courteous).

Nobility

Adjective: noble, exalted; of rank; Noun: princely, titled, patrician, aristocratic; high-, well-born; of gentle blood; genteel, comme il faut, gentlemanlike, courtly; (fashionable); highly respectable.

Taste

To one's taste, to one's mind; after one's fancy; comme il faut; tire a quatre epingles.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Comme Il Faut

English words defined with "comme il faut": becomingcomelydecent, decorousseemly. (references)
Specialty definitions using "comme il faut": Browns. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Comme Il Faut" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (alright, duly, properly).

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Modern Usage: Comme Il Faut

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Movie/TV Titles

Un homme comme il faut (1910)

Les Jumeaux choisissent comme il faut (1990)

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Commercial Usage: Comme Il Faut

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Books

  • Oeuvres Completes L'Epicier / la Femme comme Il Faut / le Notaire Vol. 24 (reference)

  • Une jeune fille bien comme il faut (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Photo Album: Comme Il Faut

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Un homme comme il faut!... / Pigal. Lith. de Langlumé. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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Anagrams: Comme Il Faut

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-i-l-m-m-o-t-u"

-3 letters: camomile, flameout, immolate, malemiut.

-4 letters: aloetic, calumet, climate, commute, filemot, foliate, leucoma, malefic, metical, outface, telomic.

-5 letters: acetum, aculei, aecium, aimful, almuce, amulet, atelic, atomic, camlet, citola, citole, coital, comate, comfit, commie, commit, coteau, facile, famuli, faucet, fecial, fecula, fetial, foetal, folate, folium, fomite, futile, locate, luetic, macule, malice, maloti, maumet, motile, muleta.

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Alternative Orthography: Comme Il Faut


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6F 6D 6D 65      49 6C      46 61 75 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101111 01101101 01101101 01100101 00100000 01001001 01101100 00100000 01000110 01100001 01110101 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#109 &#109 &#101 &#32 &#73 &#108 &#32 &#70 &#97 &#117 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 006D 006D 0065      0049 006C      0046 0061 0075 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

378179797124378240678786

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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