posture-maker
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
posture-maker (plural posture-makers)
- (archaic) One who teaches or practices artificial postures of the body: an acrobat.
- Synonym: posture-master
- 1840, “The Poets of England who have died young”, in The Cambridge University Magazine, volume 1, number 1, page 82:
- He will distort his mind to make it look violent, as posture-makers twist their bodies to display their muscles, or as maniacs do it so out of spasm.