All 11 Uses of
decorum
in
Gone with the Wind
- The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor.†
Chpt 1.1
- She had been raised in the bedroom of Solange Robillard, Ellen O'Hara's mother, a dainty, cold, high-nosed French-woman, who spared neither her children nor her servants their just punishment for any infringement of decorum.†
Chpt 1.2decorum = proper manners and conduct
- Under the arbor sat the married women, their dark dresses decorous notes in the surrounding color and gaiety.†
Chpt 1.6
- Then there would have been a decorous interval of a year or at least six months.†
Chpt 1.7
- They knew what was decorous behavior and what was not and they never failed to make their opinions known—Mrs.†
Chpt 2.8
- And now, having worked like a field hand, she had to retire decorously when the fun was just beginning.†
Chpt 2.9 *decorously = with manners and conduct considered to be proper and in good taste
- As she heard her fly up the stairs, two at a time, she paused, hairpin in mid-air, realizing that something must be wrong, for Melanie always moved as decorously as a dowager.†
Chpt 2.13
- Behind her and her husband were the four Tarleton girls, their red locks indecorous notes in the solemn occasion, their russet eyes still looking like the eyes of vital young animals, spirited and dangerous.†
Chpt 4.40indecorous = improper or rudestandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indecorous means not and reverses the meaning of decorous. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- Dead with neat stones above them, saying: 'Here lies a soldier of the Confederacy, dead for the Southland' or 'Dulce et decorum est—' or any of the other popular epitaphs.†
Chpt 4.43decorum = proper manners and conduct
- He was decorously clad in black, his linen frilly and starched, and his manner was all that custom demanded from an old friend paying a call of sympathy on one bereaved.†
Chpt 4.47decorously = with manners and conduct considered to be proper and in good taste
- You are confessing and you might as well confess the truth as a decorous lie.†
Chpt 4.47
Definition:
manners and conduct considered to be proper and in good taste