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Pose

Noun CEFR B2 Standard
poʊz

Definitions

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

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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,[…].”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

Posed posedness posedown Poseh Poseidon Poseidonia

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