state-ceremonial

Updated: May 2, 2025

You see they had not much regard for state-ceremonial or etiquette at the court of Pauline the First even in public, much less in private, so that, while the widow was deep in the washtub at one end of the hall, the queen was busy at the other end patching Otto's garments.

R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - The Island Queen