To prevent the kind of bickering and even open bloodshed such a volatile mixture might very well engender, the Sendars have developed an elaborate and strictly-observed etiquette.

He rose and stepped forward in the most approved fashion prescribed by the elaborate etiquette of the time.

Such a design derives from the days when the English gentry wished to emulate the elaborate etiquette that regulated the court of Louis XIV at Versailles.

The four tapestries that unquestionably belong together also invite religious readings, as depictions of the Passion, framed in terms of the elaborate etiquette of the courtly chase.

It's only in the early scenes that Mr. Affleck's inner gawkiness serves a character who has yet to learn the agency's elaborate hierarchal etiquette.

For Potter, the result of such elaborate etiquette was nonsensical, distorted behaviour.

Such views underlie the elaborate public etiquette required in Indian-white/mestizo interactions.

Besides, the fewer visitors, the less likelihood of violating some part of their elaborate etiquette.

Sir Percy now turned to Juliette, and with the consummate grace which the elaborate etiquette of the times demanded, he made her a courtly bow.

By the time Marie Antoinette escaped the mob from this bedroom, such state beds, with the elaborate etiquette they embodied, were already falling out of use.