0 a formal and unfriendly way of behaving that suggests that the person thinks they are better than other people --
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.
Finally, tawny landscape, gritty with littering pebbles, marks the athletic hauteur of his style.
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".
He was unusually good-looking, although his mouth was ascetic and cruel... there was a slightly derisive hauteur in the lift of his eyebrows...
The play is full of moments of punctured aristocratic hauteur.
