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hauteur

[ hoh-tur; French oh-³Ù²Õ°ù ]

noun

  1. haughty manner or spirit; arrogance.


hauteur

/ əʊˈ³ÙÉœË /

noun

  1. pride; haughtiness
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of hauteur1

1620–30; < French, equivalent to haut high ( haughty ) + -eur -or 1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of hauteur1

C17: from French, from haut high; see haughty
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“Whatever nomenclature you prefer,†Elizabeth offers, accentuating her speech with oozing hauteur.

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As a character, Miss Liza Jane combines the hauteur of opera diva Jessye Norman and the sermonizing wisdom of Maya Angelou.

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His critics often observed that he might have come much closer to his stated goals had he not expressed and pursued them with such ferocity and impatience, or treated his critics with such hauteur.

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The hauteur of his wife, Guenevere, and the egotism of her lover, Lancelot, were exposed and then exploded in torrents of rapturous balladry that swept away their faults.

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Her hauteur immediately catches the eye, and as she rides the crawling Ricardo Xavier while eating a banana, she looks like she belongs in that regal position.

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