poseur

[ poh-zur; French paw-zœr ]

/ poʊˈzɜr; French pɔˈzœr /

a person who attempts to impress others by assuming or affecting a manner, degree of elegance, sentiment, etc., other than his or her true one.

Origin of poseur

From French, dating back to 1880–85; see origin at pose¹, -eur

posadas, pose, poseidon, posen, poser, poseur, posey, posh, posho, posigrade rocket, posit

Mr. Bellton was at heart the poseur, but he was also the fighter.

The Key to Yesterday |Charles Neville Buck
He is a poseur with borrowed manners, flamboyant, a quack medicine man of the market place.

The Moving Finger |E. Phillips Oppenheim
He was not a poseur; he was merely sensitively conscious of himself and of life as an art.

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition |Robert Louis Stevenson
It is an awful thing when a poseur ceases to pose, when an egoist becomes a human being.

The Romance of His Life |Mary Cholmondeley

“The poseur, never out of his rle,” murmured his audience there.

The Missourian |Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

poseur

/ (pəʊˈzɜː) /

a person who strikes an attitude or assumes a pose in order to impress others

C19: from French, from poser to pose 1