noun
learning good manners through apprenticeship (to an upper-class family)
Historical practice where a young person lived with a higher-status family to absorb proper etiquette and deportment.
江戸時代には、商家の娘が武家に行儀見習いに出されることがあった。
In the Edo period, daughters of merchant families were sometimes sent to samurai households for etiquette training.
Standard full form.
Abbreviated form, dropping the okurigana い.
Compound of 行儀 (manners, etiquette) and 見習い (apprenticeship, learning by observation).