0 a formal and unfriendly way of behaving that suggests that the person thinks they are better than other people
The play is full of moments of punctured aristocratic hauteur.
He was unusually good-looking, although his mouth was ascetic and cruel... there was a slightly derisive hauteur in the lift of his eyebrows...
A technically challenging type of turn is a "pirouette la seconde", where the dancer spins with the working leg in second position in "la hauteur".
Finally, tawny landscape, gritty with littering pebbles, marks the athletic hauteur of his style.
Paul's attention came at last to a tall blonde woman, green-eyed, a face of patrician beauty, classic in its hauteur, untouched by tears, completely undefeated.
