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‖ hauteur|hoˈtœːr|
Also 7 haughture.
[F. hauteur (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), f. haut high.]
1. Loftiness of manner or bearing; haughtiness of demeanour.
a1628F. Greville Sidney iii. (1652) 37 In his Spanish haughture. 1745H. Walpole Lett. (1857) I. 413 (Stanf.) A comparison between him [Lord Chesterfield] and the hauteur of all other lord-lieutenants. 1792G. Washington Lett. Writ. 1892 XII. 98 That your habits of expression indicated a hauteur disgusting to those, who happen to differ from you in sentiment. 1823Byron Juan xiii. xiv, Both seem'd secure—She in her virtue, he in his hauteur. 1883S. C. Hall Retrospect II. 96 He seemed to think hauteur an essential feature of the clerical office.
†2. A height. Obs. rare.
1711Lond. Gaz. No. 4989/2 The Enemy have drawn off all their Cannon from the Hauteurs of Wavrechin. |