Crossword-Solution: BIENSEANCE 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

There is a 'bienseance' also with regard to people of the lowest degree: a gentleman observes it with his footman--even with the beggar in the street.

There is a ‘bienseance’ also with regard to people of the lowest degree: a gentleman observes it with his footman--even with the beggar in the street.

Somebody's pet Skye terrier, blanketed with scarlet satin embroidered with a monogram in gilt, had defied the bienseance of fashionable canine and feline etiquette, by flying at somebody's sedate, snowy Maltese cat, whose collar of silver bells jangled out of tune, as the combatants rolled on the velvet carpet, swept like a cyclone through the reception room, fled up the corridor.

And when at length the Vicomte, having lighted on the subject of women, poured out an infinity of adventures with ladies of all countries, of all which stories Vincent Le Roi was, of course, the hero, his fellow-traveller, unable to help being disgusted at his vanity and levity, turned round to the wall, and without considering whether he was acting in accordance with _bienseance_, fell fast asleep in the midst of one of the most thrilling narratives.