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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Formal

Formal and precise, like rooms which we enter and leave, not those in which we settle and dwell.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Formal … as the veil of a nun.
—Henry James

Formal as a Quaker.
—George P. Morris