行ぎょう儀ぎ見み習ならい

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.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいには、商しょう家かの娘むすめが武ぶ家けに行ぎょう儀ぎ見み習ならいに出だ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.