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Definition of Poseurs
1. poseur [n] - See also: poseur
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poseurs
Literary usage of Poseurs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Foundations of personality by Abraham Myerson (1921)
"Most Bohemians, so called, are poseurs and conventionalized to their marrow. ...
The " poseurs " in custom have their analogies in the pompous, ..."
2. Immortal Italy by Edgar Ansel Mowrer (1922)
"Back home, of course, these things are known to be the stock in trade of poseurs
and dilettantes. But in Florence or Venice or Rome they seem genuinely ..."
3. The Latin at War by Will Irwin (1917)
"... artistic colony you may name, there was a mixture of work and trifling,.of people
who are heralds of to-morrow and of mere poseurs. Many of the poseurs, ..."
4. Reports of Artisans Selected by a Committee Appointed by the Council of the by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1867)
"The masons who fix the stones of which the fronts are built are called poseurs ;
they generally confine themselves to this branch of the trade. ..."
5. The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia by James Orr (1915)
"They were essentially "actors," poseurs. Good men, whose character and spiritual
... They were poseurs. Their hypocrisy was none the less real that it was ..."
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