It's Merriam Webster's word of the day for December 20th.

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Today's word is Deckeris, spelled D-E-C-O-R-O-U-S.

Deckerous is an adjective. It's a formal adjective used to describe an attitude or behavior

characterized by propriety and good taste.

Here's the word used in a sentence from Indie Wire.

Elizabeth reveals later that she felt she never belonged to the decorous world of parties

and corsets and curls and feathers on the head.

One of the earliest recorded uses of the word decorous

appears in a book entitled The Rules of Civility from 1671, with these words,

it is not decorous to look in the glass, comb, brush, or do anything of that nature to

ourselves whilst the said person be in the room.

This rule of thumb may be a bit outdated. Like many behaviors once deemed unbecoming,

public primping is unlikely to offend in modern times. Though Moray's shift, Decharis lives on

to describe timeless courtesies like polite speech, proper attire, and covering one's cough.

With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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