bon ton
Noun
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Noun
bon ton (uncountable)
- (dated) The height of fashion; fashionable society.
- 1839, The Quarterly Review ↗, Volume 64, p. 555:
- This part of the proposition is very popular, particularly with the higher and middle classes, because it is the fashion, and a mark of bon ton, to enclose one's letter in an envelope, even though, or perhaps because, it subjects it to double postage.
- 1839, The Quarterly Review ↗, Volume 64, p. 555:
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