ETIQUETTE, kit, a collective term for the established ceremonies and usages of society. Among courts the Byzantine and Spanish courts, and the French court under Louis XIV and Louis XV, were noted for the strictness of their etiquette. Social etiquette consists in so minute observances that a tolerable familiarity with it can be acquired only by a considerable intercourse with polite society. Quickness of sympathy and a certain fineness of observation are more needed for proficiency in this sphere than mere power of intellect. The term is derived from the French word etiquette, originally a slip of paper affixed to a packet to indicate its contents. This term has come to mean the various decorums to be observed in the ordinary intercourse of life, and especially the comportment on state oc casions perhaps from the custom formerly of distributing tickets or slips of paper to each person containing the ,rules to be observed by him or her at the ceremony. The word is also
used by the members of certain professions to designate the rules to be observed by the mem bers, e.g., "legal etiquette,' etc. In the latter sense, however, it has been supplanted by the word 'ethics." et'lv, Loch, an inlet from the Firth of Lorne, in north of Argyllshire, west coast of Scotland. The river Awe, the outlet of Loch Awe, and the river Etive flow into it. At Connel Ferry, about three miles from the sea, it is barely 200 yards wide, and is crossed by a ridge of sunken rocks. The depth here at low water is six feet; the inflowing tide, which rises 14 feet, rushes with tremendous force through the narrow channel, breaking into raging foam which may sometimes be heard miles away. Dunstaffnage, a 13th century castle, once a royal fortress, is near its mouth.