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Haughty

Lady Lynn was a large and stout personage of about forty, very erect, very

haughty-looking, richly dressed in a satin robe of changeful sheen: her dark hair shone glossily under the shade of an azure plume, and within the circlet of a band of gems. Arrogantly superior and disdainful, adj.
Mid 16th century origins; extended form of haut from old French (haute in modern English), also from Latin altus high Words from same root: altitude, altimeter

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