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The comedy of manners is an entertainment form which satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class or of multiple classes often represented by stereotypical stock characters. For example the miles gloriosus (boastful soldier) in ancient times the fop and the rake during the Restoration or an old person pretending to be young. Restoration comedy is used as a synonym for comedy of manners.