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• n  a fine point of etiquette or petty formality
• n  strict observance of formalities

• In spite of generations of prophets and reformers, Jewish ritual with all its shrilly "orthodox" punctilio has lived with few radical changes.
• Before Cluny knows it, she is raising hob with the punctilio of three levels of snobberythe aristocratic, the backstairs (Sara Allgood et al.
• Common Colds 'Copters With proper punctilio, the presidential physician, Major General Howard Snyder, diagnosed Ike's ailment as not a "cold" at all but a mild case of.