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poseur
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun poseur has 1 sense
- poseur(n = noun.person) poser - a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not; Array is a kind of exhibitionist, show-off
has particulars: poseuse
CIDE DICTIONARY
poseur, n. masc. [F.].
A person who poses or attitudizes, esp. mentally. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
poseur, n. (fem. poseuse) a person who poses for effect or behaves affectedly.
Etymology
F f. poser POSE(1)
THESAURUS
poseur
ape, attitudinarian, attitudinizer, blagueur, bluff, bluffer, charlatan, conformist, copier, copycat, copyist, counterfeiter, cuckoo, dissembler, dissimulator, echo, echoer, echoist, exhibitionist, fake, faker, forger, fourflusher, fraud, humbug, hypocrite, imitator, impersonator, impostor, malingerer, masquerader, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, mocker, mockingbird, monkey, mountebank, parrot, phony, plagiarist, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, poser, posture maker, posturer, posturist, pretender, quack, quacksalver, quackster, ringer, saltimbanco, sham, shammer, sheep, show-off, simulator, striker of poses
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