Examples of using "Mœurs" in a sentence and their english translations:
When in Rome...
Other times, other customs.
- When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
- When in Rome...
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.
She's sexually promiscuous.
We have to respect local customs.
I want to be assigned to the vice squad.
We constructed similar rituals, practices and behaviors
We have to respect local customs.
The Russians copy the French ways, but always fifty years later.
She is a tender girl of questionable morals.
Adam Mickiewicz’s narrative “Pan Tadeusz”, which paints the nature, customs, and manners of the Belarusian landowners of Napoleon’s time, is, as of 1859, already being translated into Russian.
With the face mask culture ingrained into Asian culture, not much has changed in Asia other than a visible increase of people wearing face masks in public because of COVID-19.
"Him, crowned with vows and many an Eastern prize, / thou, freed at length from care, shalt welcome to the skies."
"Now, to ease thy woes, / since sorrow for his sake hath dimmed thine eyes, / more will I tell, and hidden fates disclose. / He in Italia long shall battle with his foes, / and crush fierce tribes, and milder ways ordain, / and cities build and wield the Latin sway, / till the third summer shall have seen him reign, / and three long winter-seasons passed away / since fierce Rutulia did his arms obey."
Then, audience granted, as the fane they filled, / thus calmly spake the eldest of the train, / Ilioneus: "O queen, whom Jove hath willed / to found this new-born city, here to reign, / and stubborn tribes with justice to refrain, / we, Troy's poor fugitives, implore thy grace, / storm-tost and wandering over every main: / forbid the flames our vessels to deface, / mark our afflicted plight, and spare a pious race."