📚 Hauteur, noun. 🔉 /əʊˈtəː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): Proud haughtiness of manner. ❗️ Examples: 1. She swept into the room with formidable hauteur. 2. His natural coolness and aristocratic hauteur. 3. Gone was the better-than-thou hauteur and proud carriage synonymous to Adrienne Clarke. 4. However, with the addition of an arcade of brand-name boutiques, the Raffles' former aristocratic hauteur seems to have been traded for a sort of self-conscious post-yuppie consumerism. 5. Despite his much vaunted lack of emotional attachment to the trappings of title, the marquis has been cited as conducting his business with a distinctly aristocratic hauteur. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic