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ˈposture-ˌmaster
1. A master of the art of posturing; an expert in assuming artificial postures or attitudes of the body; esp. an acrobat or professional contortionist.
1691Satyr agst. French Ep. A ij b, Clark, the Posture-master, never knew half so many Distortions of Body, as they do. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 143 The..posture-master, rope-dancer, and equilibrist. 1830Scott Demonol. viii. 234 Tricks, not much different from those exhibited by expert posture-masters of the present day.
2. A teacher of postures or callisthenics.
1712Addison Spect. No. 305 ⁋9 Delivered into the Hands of their second Instructor, who is a kind of Posture-Master. This Artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, to shrug up their Shoulders in a dubious case [etc.]. 1850L. Hunt Autobiog. I. vi. 236 Deshayes..was rather an elegant posture-master than dancer. 1854Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims Wks. III. 174 Nature is the best posture-master.
So ˈposture-ˌmistress, a female expert in posturing, or teacher of postures.
1722De Foe Col. Jack (1840) 206 She was a..posture-mistress in love, and could put herself into what shapes she pleased. 1799Hull Advertiser 28 Dec. 3/2 Posture-masters and mistresses. |