Many of his contemporaries thought he lacked the decorum required in a gentleman, let alone a leading aristocrat.
Decorum required erasing the memory of the young man's presence: It was a double bed, and sometimes she would curl up at my feet, but mostly against the pillow, laying down her head beside my own.
In the late Nineteenth century, tennis decorum required men to wear a suit and tie (Fig. 2) and women a cumbersome dress with a corset and long sleeves.
"We need decorum here and better manners".
(If the last seems just too naughty for Americans, and "more decorum is required at the dinner table," a solicitous English cookbook advises, it "can also be called spotted dog").
As decorum requires, Martin nodded politely at our host and downed the bowl's contents in a single burbling gulp.
Now, political correctness, or at least an unwritten code of decorum, requires that everyone be invited to every celebration.
Though Montebello may never give Augusta National a run for its money, Mr. Perlman said a minimum amount of decorum was still required.
While some in the opposition are raising questions over the lifestyle and decorum that are required from a public figure, much of the contention is centering on whether Mr. Berlusconi intervened to get Ruby out of trouble when she was in the custody of the Milan police.
That apparently was fake news, but officials did acknowledge they expected decorum from "patrons" not required at other tournaments.
In film and TV we often see heteros bonking each others' brains out in graphic detail but gay characters are required to behave with a little more decorum.
