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Definition of Posturer
1. Noun. Someone who behaves in a manner calculated to impress or mislead others.
Definition of Posturer
1. n. One who postures.
Definition of Posturer
1. Noun. A person who postures ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Posturer
1. one that postures [n -S] - See also: postures
Lexicographical Neighbors of Posturer
Literary usage of Posturer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Old Showmen, and the Old London Fairs by Thomas Frost (1874)
"... Giant—A Dutch Rope-Dancer—Music Booths— Joseph Clark, the posturer—William
Philips, the Zany— William Stokes, the Vaulter—A Show in Threadneedle Street. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1894)
"... and posturing have a great charm for the Japanese, and large sums of money
are spent in keeping up these feminine establishments, or dancer (posturer) ..."
3. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"... to his opponents the same unreserved candor which he demanded for himself.
His oratory was impetuous and devoid of artifice. He was not a posturer or ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"Kean, poor little fellow, Lad up to this time been a posturer, tumbler, and what
not, " intone or other of those irregular troops — Richardson's, ..."
5. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"... a bad plaster cast, and sets Raphael down as a mere posturer and dexterous
academician, one is at a loss to reconcile his opinions with any standard. ..."
6. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1889)
"... a bad plaster cast, and sets Raphael down as a mere posturer and dexterous
academician, one is at a loss to reconcile his opinions with any standard. ..."
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