Meaning of Pose | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Common cold, head cold; catarrh.
   archaic
2. Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).
3. Affectation.

Equivalents

Examples

“Now […] have we many chimnies, and yet our tenderlings complain of rheums, catarrhs, and poses.”

“Megg yesterday was troubled with a pose, Which, this night hardned, sodders up her nose.”

“The Ague, Cough, the Pyony, the Pose. Aches within, and accidents without, [...]”

“And whereas some say, that they which use oft washing of their heads shall be very prone to headache, that is not true, but only in such that, after they have been washed, roll up their hair (being yet wet) about their heads; the cold whereof is dangerous to bring them to catarrhs and poses, with other inconveniences.”

“Please adopt a more graceful pose for my camera.”

“Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway,[…].”

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