convenances

To do all the good possible and to respect all the convenances were her cardinal principles.

The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason

Well, the family of his future wife was of a higher class and, what is far more, of foreign origin, for whom a large number of our English 'convenances' do not exist.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899

A great curiosity to me were certain married people, who were known never to speak to each other at home, but who respected the convenances of society so much that even if they never met in private they took care to be seen together in public, and to enter evening parties together with smiling countenances.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

I pointed out to her that this was not a matter of splendour or comfort but of “convenances.”

The Arrow of Gold 2006

As soon as les convenances permitted, he confided his son to the care of a relative of his wife, and began his roving life again.

The Honor of the Name �mile Gaboriau 2003

He accompanies me for — for the — what you call it? les convenances.

Initials Only 2003

Madame Hanska, in reply to this letter, objected strongly to the breach of "les convenances" which would be committed if Balzac came to see her early in her widowhood; and it was not till July 17th, 1843, that he was at last permitted to meet her in St. Petersburg, and then he had not seen her since his visit to Vienna, eight years before.

Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings

One of the most remarkable sights of the Siege was, not the gravity of doctors, lawyers, directors, etc., presenting tickets for soup -- _that_ was piquant enough -- but the number of young ladies, votaries of fashion, who emerged from the _melee_ bedraggled and flushed with their pails of _nectar_, to all appearances not only forgetful of the _convenances_, but beaming with smiles of triumph.

The Siege of Kimberley T. Phelan

There were a few bejewelled dames whose ideal of good form and adoration of the convenances would not allow them to entertain such a "fall"; it was asking too much; what would Mrs. Grundy say?

The Siege of Kimberley T. Phelan

It would have been a breach of the _convenances_ had he gone to visit her so early in her widowhood.

Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd