posture-maker

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posture-maker (plural posture-makers)

  1. (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.
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