devoir
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From the polar heights of Great Neck came the Women's Club thereof, aesthetically accoutered to do their devoir.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He gave it, as has been said, mechanical perfection,— "Et r�duisit la Muse aux r�gles du devoir."
From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Spingarn, Joel Elias
But presently, frowning, said, "I marvel, sir, that so good a knight as you should know his devoir so ill as turn rebel, and give us all this trouble."
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles