All 6 Uses of
decorum
in
Main Street
- Yet so radioactive were her nerves, so adventurous her trust in rather vaguely conceived sweetness and light, that she was more energetic than any of the hulking young women who, with calves bulging in heavy-ribbed woolen stockings beneath decorous blue serge bloomers, thuddingly galloped across the floor of the "gym" in practise for the Blodgett Ladies' Basket-Ball Team.†
Chpt 1
- In twenty minutes the party was again elevated to the decorum of a prayer-meeting.
Chpt 6 *decorum = proper manners and conduct
- Whether by shock, disgust, joy of combat, or physical activity, all the party were freed from their years of social decorum.†
Chpt 6
- He fell often and joyously into his old irreverence about the lords of Gopher Prairie, but always—with a certain difficulty—he added something decorous and appreciative.†
Chpt 19
- She helped Ella Stowbody to set out plants in the tiny triangular park at the railroad station; she squatted in the dirt, with a small curved trowel and the most decorous of gardening gauntlets; she talked to Ella about the public-spiritedness of fuchsias and cannas; and she felt that she was scrubbing a temple deserted by the gods and empty even of incense and the sound of chanting.†
Chpt 22
- As she went respectably home, convoyed by a husband, and decorously holding up her skirts, Carol rejoiced, "Everything has changed!†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(decorum) manners and conduct considered to be proper and in good taste