poseuse

Arina Stassinopoulos Huffington IS a flake, a poseuse AND an attention-seeking diva.

West Wing actors blow John McCain's cover 2008

Yes, I am a privileged poseur (poseuse?) because my parents steeped me in music from well before day 1 and I learned three instruments (good at piano, so-so at fiddle, only ever scared cat with oboe).

You look away for 2 minutes and... Jessica 2004

Yes, I am a privileged poseur (poseuse?) because my parents steeped me in music from well before day 1 and I learned three instruments (good at piano, so-so at fiddle, only ever scared cat with oboe).

Archive 2004-09-01 Jessica 2004

Why should she accept such a favor at the hands of this poseuse?

The Nest Builder Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

The author, E.M. DELAFIELD, has made an almost uncannily penetrating study of the development of a _poseuse_.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 14, 1917 Various

How often the woman or man with a God-given sense of the beautiful, the fitting, harmony between costume and setting, is described as poseur or poseuse by those who lack the same instinct.

Woman as Decoration Emily Burbank

It was such a simple matter nowadays to have them removed that obviously only a poseuse would tolerate them.

Tutors' Lane 1937

At this moment Margot was inclined to be classic, caught by a plastic poseuse from Athens, who, attired solely in gold-leaf, was giving exhibitions at the Hippodrome to the despair of Mrs. Grundy.

The Way of Ambition Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

The actors are necessarily a little frigid, the hero, unwillingly perhaps, a poseur, the heroine willingly a poseuse; but the scenery in which they carry about their rarefied and cool personalities is very attractive.

The Novels of Mrs. Wharton 1906

Unconsciously -- without perceiving it -- one may be half a _poseuse_; but at least I've been sincere in my love for you, and in hungering to be your wife.

The Big Drum A Comedy in Four Acts Arthur Wing Pinero 1894