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How you carry yourself when you forgot anyone was watching, judged anyway.
means The way a person stands, moves, and behaves — their general conduct and bearing, especially as judged against a standard of propriety.
from Rooted in the Latin deportare, meaning 'to carry away' or 'carry off' — from de- ('away') plus portare ('to carry'). French carried the word into 'se déporter,' meaning to conduct or comport oneself, and English borrowed that sense: deportment as the way you 'carry' yourself. The same Latin root also gave English 'deport' in its grimmer sense of expelling someone — a reminder that 'carrying' and 'carrying off' were never far apart.
- old school subject
- Victorian schools graded posture and manners like math
- root word
- from deport, literally how you carry yourself
- book balancing
- girls walked with books on heads to train it
- not etiquette
- etiquette is rules, deportment is the walking proof