Ĕt'i-quĕtte/, n.

(ĕt'i-kĕt'), n. [Fr., properly, a little piece of paper, or a mark or title, affixed to a bag or bundle, expressing its contents, label, ticket, Prov. Fr. estiquée, pointed piece of wood, wood-ticket, from L. Ger. stil'ke, peg, pin, tack, stil'ken, H. Ger. stecken, to stick.] The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum.

The pompous etiquette of the court of Louis the Fourteenth. Prescott.