Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Proud; haughty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Proud; haughty; disdainful.
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- adjective obsolete
proud ;haughty ;disdainful
Etymologies
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Examples
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His backside happened to be to the donkey-rather too close to the donkey for the donkey's liking-and at that exact, fastuous instant, the ungrateful creature lashed out with its hind legs, one of its hooves kicking thin air but the other dealing Switters's right stilt a blow that sent him flying.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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His backside happened to be to the donkey-rather too close to the donkey for the donkey's liking-and at that exact, fastuous instant, the ungrateful creature lashed out with its hind legs, one of its hooves kicking thin air but the other dealing Switters's right stilt a blow that sent him flying.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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The King of Saxony had paid a visit to Brussels in the late autumn of 1914 and had invited this Colonel of his Army to a fastuous banquet given at the Palace Hotel.
Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892
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Northallerton or old, married schoolfellows from other northern or midland towns coming to partake of her fastuous hospitality.
Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892
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