Decency

Decency is iconologically describ’d by a comely youth, because decency is the ornament of life, cloth’d with a lion’s skin, as an emblem of strength of mind, a requisite necessiary for those who will observe an exact decorum in all their actions. In his hand a sprig of amaranthus, and on his head a chaplet of the same, to denote continuance, because it never withers. On his right foot a buskin, and on his left a sandal, to denote decency in behaviour or dress; the first belong’d to persons of the superiour, the latter to those of the most inferiour rank.

Definition taken from The Universal Etymological Dictionary, edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)

Dark Cully * Decrepitaˊtion [with Chymists]