礼仪，礼节
the rules of polite social behaviour
observe the proprieties They'd invited us to dinner so we thought we'd better observe the proprieties and invite them back. 他们请了我们吃饭，所以我们认为最好遵循礼数回请他们。
He had no time for stuffy upper-crust social proprieties.
My childhood home was a place of unshakable proprieties - if you swore, your mouth would be washed out with soap.
Amy taunted her friend, challenging her to overcome her middle-class proprieties.
The novel is excellent in its portrayal of small-town proprieties.
See also: propriety