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Definition of Poseuse
1. Noun. A woman poseur.
Definition of Poseuse
1. a female poseur [n -S] - See also: poseur
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poseuse
Literary usage of Poseuse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Men, Women, and Minxes by Leonora Blanche Lang (1912)
"MEN, WOMEN, AND MINXES A poseuse OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY IF a soothsayer had
suddenly informed Philippe Egalite, on his wedding-day that he would select, ..."
2. The Bookman (1910)
"The besetting idea of the Sociological poseuse is to inflict what she calls "an
... While the poseuse considers her mission as embracing all humanity, ..."
3. French and English idioms and proverbs: with critical and historical notes by Alphonse Mariette (1896)
"poseuse.—C'est une poseuse ! = She is a lump of affectation. Possédé.—Il se démène
comme un possédé = He kicks about like a madman. se Posséder. ..."
4. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1914)
"Englishwoman again!" However, their fears were not realised. She came back to
England and was soon her former English self, something of a poseuse perhaps, ..."
5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"He accepted Mary Godwin as a sort of female seraph, and this essentially vulgar-
souled, small minded, sentimental poseuse exploited him fifty times more ..."
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