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etiquette

French étiquette was a 'label' or 'ticket' stuck on something; at court it came to mean the written order of ceremonies, and that sense spread from Versailles to Madrid, Vienna and St Petersburg. The older 'label' sense gave English ticket, which the railways carried to India.

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The road to English

From Middle French to English, Hindi

From French to Spanish

From French to Italian

From French to Portuguese

From French to German

From French to Russian

From French to Turkish

From French to Japanese

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