proprietous

Adjective

proprietous (comparative more proprietous, superlative most proprietous)

1. (proscribed, sometimes) proper
   • […] the russet gown and spotless head-gear, so proprietous to the out-of-doors employments, and in-doors aspect of a cottager?1845, Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, volume 1, numbers 1-3, page 257
   • Writers have sought both to observe and to exploit these constraints, and sometimes to flout them, while critics have set themselves up mostly to patrol the perimeters of proprietous expression […]1993, David Simpson, Romanticism, Nationalism, and the Revolt Against Theory, page 152