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comme il faut

[ kaw-meel foh; English kuhm eel foh ]

French.
  1. as it should be; proper; fitting; fittingly.


comme il faut

/ kɔm il fo /

(no translation)

  1. correct or correctly
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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“It’s not considered comme il faut,†he told The Washington Post in 1981.

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It was not quite comme il faut that the Barons should presume to speak to the boy.

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The French duo are certainly more meticulous than Moroder ever was, but the nine-minute epic is a comme il faut tribute to a living legend, and a gracious thank you to their musical progenitor.

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He never met her but kept in touch by phone for long stretches from 1977 to 2003, out of a genteel sense of comme il faut, according to his deposition.

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Midas" of Lily, quoted by Charles Knight in his "London," are found collected several of these distinctive marks of the courtier comme il faut: "How will you be trimmed, sir?

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