Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art or practice of posturing, or making contortions of the body.
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Examples
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Your comedy and mine will have been played then, and we shall be removed, oh, how far, from the trumpets, and the shouting, and the posture-making.
Vanity Fair 2006
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England may be a land of heroic hearts, but it is not, properly, a land of heroic figures, or heroic posture-making.
Lavengro 2004
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I didn't get 'em by posture-making, but by being banged about.
Hard Times 1876
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I didn't get 'em by posture-making, but by being banged about.
Hard Times 1868
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I didn't get 'em by posture-making, but by being banged about.
Hard Times Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1868
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It consists in a great measure of posture-making, and is easily seen through.
Character Samuel Smiles 1858
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He seems to have regarded posture-making as a peculiar attribute of genius.
Art in England Notes and Studies Dutton Cook 1856
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England may be a land of heroic hearts, but it is not, properly, a land of heroic figures, or heroic posture-making.
Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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England may be a land of heroic hearts, but it is not, properly, a land of heroic figures, or heroic posture-making.
Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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England may be a land of heroic hearts, but it is not, properly, a land of heroic figures, or heroic posture-making.
Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842
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