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poseur
[ poh-zur; French paw-zœr ]
noun
- a person who attempts to impress others by assuming or affecting a manner, degree of elegance, sentiment, etc., other than their true one.
poseur
/ pəʊˈzɜː /
noun
- a person who strikes an attitude or assumes a pose in order to impress others
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Word History and Origins
Origin of poseur1
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Example Sentences
We find Wilkes as a poseur on literature in one of these entertaining letters to “dearest Polly.”
It is an awful thing when a poseur ceases to pose, when an egoist becomes a human being.
Poet and poseur he was, the strangest combination ever seen in man.
The peculiar charm of these Letters is that they are so evidently private; there is nothing of the poseur about them.
And Whistler, he declared, was a "poseur" and the picture "a colossal piece of pyramidal impudence."
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