bon ton
Noun

bon ton (uncountable)

  1. (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.
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