Hauteur Definition

hō-tûr, ō-tœr
noun
Disdainful pride; haughtiness; snobbery.
Webster's New World

Haughtiness or arrogance; loftiness.

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Origin of Hauteur

  • French from Old French from haut high haughty

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French.

    From Wiktionary

Hauteur Sentence Examples

  • On the palate, the wine was rather more astringent, brisker perhaps, with a touch of aristocratic hauteur.

  • Figures slim, muscular and bony, action impetuous but of arrested energy, tawny landscape, gritty with littering pebbles, mark the athletic hauteur of his style.

  • As a general he does not seem to have possessed the entire confidence of his troops, owing probably to his natural hauteur and the strict discipline which he imposed on them.

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