posey
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of posey
Example Sentences
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She has long, tapering limbs, remarkably arched feet, effortlessly high leg extensions, technical efficiency — but she’s already become glacially posey, as if always dancing for the mirror.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2016
On Saturday, I could believe neither Maurizio Nardi’s posey Revivalist nor Mariya Dashkina Maddux’s sentimental Bride, but I remember the same problems with earlier dancers decades ago.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2014
If she's not, someone else has a whole bunch of Victorian posey holders.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2012
Though he is a tyrant on the podium, Koussevitzky in private life is an affable, courtly, talkative, rather posey Russian boyar* of the old school.
From Time Magazine Archive
And then there wuz a century plant with a blossom stem thirty feet high, and a posey accordin', one posey agin as high as my Josiah, and his father, and etc., etc., etc., and Ury.
From Samantha at the World's Fair by Grimm, Baron C. de
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