Suppose she had meddled in a matter which no lady could touch without indecorum, perhaps actual defilement?
"Christian's Mistake"
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
We will laugh in the company of our wives and children; we will tolerate no indecorum; we like that our matrons and girls should be pure."
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann
All the old ladies, says Burney, were scandalised with its vulgarity and indecorum, "but the young adopted it as a fashion so universally, that it seemed a national uniform for youth and beauty."
"Handel"
Edward J. Dent