moeurs

From the French mœurs (“ways, character, morals”), from Latin mōrēs (“ways, character, morals”), the plural of mōs. Doublet of mores.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɜː/

moeurs pl (plural only)

1. Alternative form of mores, a set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices.
   • 2011, Fiona MacCarthy, The Last Pre-Raphaelite, Faber, →ISBN, page 117:

     Georgie was already becoming a little bit bohemian, absorbed into the moeurs of the Pre-Raphaelite world.

   • 2017, Eduardo Corredera, “Legacies of Conquest: Transnational perspectives on the conquest and colonization of Latin America”, in CRASSH‎^[1]:

     The historiography suggests the eighteenth century peninsular reformers saw a separation between the state as part of the European realm of moeurs and civilisation, and the Empire as the vast swathes of land that belonged to the monarchy.

• -merous, Mouser, mouser, oremus

From the Latin mōrēs (“ways, character, morals”), the plural of mōs.

• IPA^(key): /mœr(s)/

moeurs f pl

1. mores, customs

• French: mœurs