Word of the Day: Comme il Faut

It's hard to know what is proper nowadays.

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comme il faut

adjective

ˌkə-mē(l)-ˈfō

: conforming to accepted standards : proper

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Among the upper crust, such a thing would not have been comme il faut.

| Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 5 July 2018

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I was feeling sad that Melania may not care to come play first lady in the second Trump administration.

She visited the East Wing only a couple of times during her husband’s first term, turning into the first lady of absenteeism, according to Katie Rogers, the author of “American Woman,” a history of modern first ladies. Her office there was so empty, her staff used it as a gift-wrapping station.

Even so, I thought we might get a little comme il faut from “the Portrait,” as Ivanka nicknamed her stepmother — a small bow to protocol.

But not likely. As some in the Trump orbit point out, it’s no accident that Barron is going to New York University, not a university here, like Georgetown or American.

| Maureen Dowd, Trump’s New Cologne: Eau de Musk

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