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- noun Plural form of
politesse .
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Examples
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In America, however, even the Foreign Service is weakly positioned, its carefully sieved career officers often cast as upper-servant types in flight from the competitive economy that rages outside the politesses of diplomacy.
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There are fashionable words, phrases, and even gestures, at Paris, which are called du bon ton; not to mention certaines Petites politesses et attentions, qui ne sont rien en elle-memes, which fashion has rendered necessary.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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Après le coup d'Etat, la dame vint à Paris faire un petit voyage, et elle s'attendait à ce que ses politesses lui fussent rendues.
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He is certainly a _very striking_ man; still very handsome; his profile is _beautiful_, and his manners _most_ dignified and graceful; extremely civil -- quite alarmingly so, as he is so full of attentions and _politesses_.
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There are fashionable words, phrases, and even gestures, at Paris, which are called 'du bon ton'; not to mention 'certaines Petites politesses et attentions, qui ne sont rien en elle-memes', which fashion has rendered necessary.
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On 'lui doit des politesses, on fait l'eloge de ses charmes, et il n'en est ni plus ni moins pour cela': it pleases, it flatters; you get their good word, and you lose nothing by it.
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1751
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There are fashionable words, phrases, and even gestures, at Paris, which are called 'du bon ton'; not to mention 'certaines Petites politesses et attentions, qui ne sont rien en elle-memes', which fashion has rendered necessary.
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1751
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On 'lui doit des politesses, on fait l'eloge de ses charmes, et il n'en est ni plus ni moins pour cela': it pleases, it flatters; you get their good word, and you lose nothing by it.
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Perhaps our persistence in delivering politesses reflecting our own values says something about our minds.
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Perhaps our persistence in delivering politesses reflecting our own values says something about our minds.
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