BonTonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

bon ton (uncountable)

1. (dated) The height of fashion; fashionable society.
   • 1839, The Quarterly Review‎, volume 64, page 555:

     This part of the proposition is very popular, particularly with the higher and middle classes, because it is the fashion, and a mark of bon ton, to enclose one's letter in an envelope, even though, or perhaps because, it subjects it to double postage.

関連する語

• ton

参照

• “bon ton”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.