Lexicographical Neighbors of Posturists
Literary usage of Posturists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1852)
"... two wheezy camel?, a half-dozen tinsel-covered cavaliers, (costume strictly
oriental,) five posturists, the clown, disguised and supernaturally solemn, ..."
2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1907)
"and, of course, the bevy of choral posturists, now introduced to us as " The
Butterfly Girls," gay and seductive damsels in gorgeous gowns and prodigal of ..."
3. Plays and Players by Laurence Hutton (1875)
"... and "posturists" which crowd the show cases and show windows of our photographers,
we would gladly exchange for one carte of " Our Mary ! ..."
4. Meliora (1864)
"... tight-rope dancers, posturists, formers of tableaux vivans, of man-buildings,
&e., have been popular for ages in the circus; ..."
5. The Mystics, Ascetics, and Saints of India: A Study of Sadhuism, with an by John Campbell Oman (1903)
"One of these religious posturists, named Bava Lachman Dae, was induced a few
years ago to come across the ocean to exhibit himself at the Westminster ..."
6. Festus: A Poem by Philip James Bailey (1901)
"... and the curt commands Of law, whose thunderous negatives awe the world, And
pale the lips of weekly posturists, Shall I cheat thee, bonny heart of mine, ..."
7. Festus: A Poem by Philip James Bailey (1903)
"... and the curt commands Of law, whose thunderous negatives awe the world, And
pale the lips of weekly posturists, Shall I cheat thee, bonny heart of mine, ..."
8. A Manual of Cheirosophy: Being a Complete Practical Handbook of the Twin by Edward Heron-Allen (1894)
"The excess of this type [ie, when the exaggeration development of t^le pointedness
is extremely marked] produces of the type, romancers, posturists, ..."
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