hauteur
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From French.
[edit] Noun
hauteur
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XII:
- “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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- 1992, Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 31
- [...] as, indeed, a new subject presented itself now, "Here's our turn!" braking the Toyota and turning the wheel sharply without having had time to signal so, close behind them, an angered motorist sounded his horn, but The Senator took no heed: not out of arrogance or hauteur but, simply, because he took no heed.
- 1992, Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 31
[edit] French
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- (aspirated h) IPA: /o.tœʁ/, X-SAMPA: /ot9R/
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Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Rhymes: -œʁ
- Homophones: auteur, auteurs, hauteurs
[edit] Noun
hauteur f. (plural hauteurs)
- height, altitude
- La hauteur du Mont Everest est de 8.848 mètres.
- arrogance
- (geometry) height
- La hauteur d'un parallélogramme est perpendiculaire à sa base.
