concept
Comme il faut
comme il faut
also: комильфо
French for "as is proper" -- a fashionable borrowing in educated Russian speech of the period, denoting correct, decorous, socially acceptable behavior or appearance.
Reading notes
- A Trivial Incident §1 comme-il-faut
French for "as it should be" -- the code of proper gentlemanly appearance and manner that the ruined prince clings to as his last possession, giving away money he cannot spare partly to perform this code rather than out of real generosity.
- Spring's Arrival (A Discourse) §13 comme il faut
French for "as is proper" or "correct, decorous" -- a fashionable borrowing in educated Russian speech of the period, glossed by the author himself in the original text's own parenthetical aside.