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hauteur

(n): overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors
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about 1 year ago brtom said:

"There was an innate refinement, a languid queenly hauteur about Gerty which was unmistakably evidenced in her delicate hands and higharched instep."
Joyce, Ulysses, 13

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