noun
- dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress, etc.
- the quality or state of being decorous, or exhibiting such dignified propriety; orderliness; regularity.
- Usually decorums. an observance or requirement of polite society.
Latin.
- sweet and fitting it is to die for one’s country.
noun
- propriety, esp in behaviour or conduct
- a requirement of correct behaviour in polite society
1560s, from Latin decorum “that which is seemly,” noun use of neuter of adjective decorus “fit, proper,” from decor (see decor).