"hauteur" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /oʊˈtɝ/ [General-American], /ɔːˈtɜː/ [Received-Pronunciation], /əʊˈtɜː/ [Received-Pronunciation] Forms: hauteurs [plural]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ) Etymology: From French hauteur. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|hauteur}} French hauteur Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} hauteur (countable and uncountable, plural hauteurs)
  1. Haughtiness or arrogance; loftiness. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-hauteur-en-noun-M7EebObz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 85 3 2 8 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 87 2 2 7 2

Inflected forms

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          "text": "“What's happened, young Herring?” I think for a moment he was about to draw himself up with hauteur and say he would prefer, if we didn't mind, not to discuss his private affairs, but when he was half-way up he caught Aunt Dahlia's eye and returned to position one.",
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          "text": "[A]n angered motorist sounded his horn, but The Senator took no heed: not out of arrogance or hauteur but, simply, because he took no heed."
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          "ref": "1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:",
          "text": "I imagine the Dreamward’s Hotel Manager to be an avuncular Norwegian with a rag sweater and a soothing odor of Borkum Rif about him, a guy w/o sunglasses or hauteur […]",
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