punctilio
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They combined, then as now, a wild bureaucratic adherence to punctilio and procedure with entanglements of cohort and clan that could shortcut the procedure in a moment.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 8, 2017
There lingers, even in our mercantile age, an admiration for the aristocratic ethos, the punctilio, of the duel.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2015
Protocol, punctilio, politesse suddenly drop, leaving Tennyson’s “Nature, red in tooth and claw.”
From BusinessWeek ● Sep. 29, 2011
Emily Post, grand old lady of punctilio, informed interviewers that the bedroom of her country place was done in Chinese red.
From Time Magazine Archive
He spoke with a nasal tone and without much grammatical punctilio.
From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
Communist party congresses are usu ally thoroughly predictable, ritualistic affairs, and for a time last week the Twelfth Congress of the Italian party in Bologna observed the punctilios.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not a moment being to spare, I paid no attention to the punctilios of honour or rank, but ordered the troops to advance in their then disposition.
From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart
And it was all so easy; no formality, few punctilios to observe––just free-and-easy good-fellowship.
From The Hound From The North by Charles Livingston Bull
Margaret on her part did what she could to secure to her King some of the punctilios of reverential respect due in her knowledge to a monarch.
From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by George Reid
Was I to stand on punctilios with a great Christian noble?
From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
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