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Meanings of comme il faut in anglès

According with custom or propriety.

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Usage of comme il faut in anglès
1
The house I speak of is comme il faut to the utmost.
The Parisians — Complete
2
The Hartels are quite comme il faut in their personal and business relations.
Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1
3
One of them was quite a handsome boy, and looked so comme il faut.
The Forged Coupon, and Other Stories
4
Only with the " comme il faut" man does this rarely happen.
Youth
5
M. Brotherson est un monsieur comme il faut.
Initials Only
6
He is très comme il faut.
Balloons
7
Every unmarried daughter of every peer in England would have envied me,-butit would have been comme il faut.
The Duke's Children
8
I was " comme il faut" and smoked.
Beasts, Men and Gods
9
This " comme il faut"-ness of mine lay, first and foremost, in proficiency in French, especially conversational French.
Youth
10
The soup was too salt; the cutlets were not exactly comme il faut; and the pudding was hardly enough boiled.
Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1
11
If a man is a man, un homme comme il faut, he need fear no ill-treatment from others of like calibre.
Henry Ossian Flipper, the Colored Cadet at West Point / Autobiog...
12
Teresa declared that "The god-mother was surely a 'très comme il faut,'" but she did not explain to us why.
Paula the Waldensian
13
The corrected score has been sent at once to the copyists, and in six weeks the work will be rehearsed comme il faut.
Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1
14
With a note from Prince Ivan Michaelovitch, Nekhludoff went to Senator Wolf-unhomme très comme il faut, as the Prince had described him.
The Awakening / (The Resurrection)
15
This may be de rigueur and comme il faut and umslopogass on Long Island, but it does not go in Katonah-peaceful ,pureKatonah!
The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political
16
You see, Aunt Hobson, she's very kind, you know, and all that, but I don't think she's what you call comme il faut.
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family