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Poseuse   Listen
noun
Poseuse, Poseur  n.  A person who poses or attitudizes, esp. mentally.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Poseuse" Quotes from Famous Books



... President as "Your Excellency." He had the impulses as well as the traditions of an elder day. But he had three insidious defects. At the back of his mind there was a vein of theatricality, hitherto unrevealed, that might, under sufficient stimulus, transform him into a poseur. Though physically brave, he had in his heart, unsuspected by himself or others, the dread of responsibility. He was void of humor. These damaging qualities, brought out and exaggerated by too swift a rise to apparent greatness, eventually worked his ruin. As an organizer ...
— Lincoln • Nathaniel Wright Stephenson

... person, though a little distracting, he was, and he talked, we recall, of many things. He impressed us, we found afterwards, as a poseur beyond question, a conscious Ishmaelite in the world of wit, and in some subtly inexplicable way as a most consummate ass. He talked first of the excellent and commodious trams that came from over the passes, and ran down the long valley towards middle Switzerland, and of all the growth of ...
— A Modern Utopia • H. G. Wells



Words linked to "Poseuse" :   poser, poseur



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