Crossword-Solution: RIGUEUR 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

His face was rather soft than stern, charming than grand, pale than flushed; his nose—if a sketch of his features be _de rigueur_ for a person of his pretensions—was artistically beautiful enough to have been worth doing in marble by any sculptor not over-busy, and was hence devoid of those knotty irregularities which often mean power; while the double-cyma or classical curve of his mouth was not without a looseness in its close.

The ugly, my unhappy friend, is _de rigueur_: it is the only wear! What a chance you threw away with the serpent! Why had Apollonius no pimples? Heavens, my dear Low, you do not know your business.

PERFECT BEHAVIOR _would have told him how the man of birth and breeding learns to face anything with perfect “Sang froid.”_ [Illustration] The Pun “De Rigueur” _The Groom has just presented his Best Man to his sister, who, though she is more than eager to make every one feel at home, has failed to make at once the pun “de rigueur” on the words “best man.” An awkward silence has ensued.

The whole camp became tidier; a coat was considered de rigueur at “Prossy's mother” evenings; there was less horseplay in the trails, and less shouting.

There is something infinitely pathetic in the epitaph this much-loved and successful woman wrote for herself when she felt that the end was near: Ici git Arthenice, exempte des rigueurs Don't la rigueur du sort l'a touours poursuivie.