Comedy-of-manners
noun
1.
a comedy satirizing the manners and customs of a social class, especially one dealing with the amorous intrigues of fashionable society.
noun
1.
a comedy dealing with the way of life and foibles of a social group
2.
the genre represented by works of this type
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