table manners

noun — 2 senses

table manners

noun
1

An accepted code of conduct for behavior at a dining table.

  • Basic table manners were covered in the first day of finishing school, but more followed.
2

The behavior of a person while dining.

  • Some of the children had good table manners; some not.

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