affected manners intended to impress others, a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display, position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body), verb_ To perplex or confuse (someone), pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions, introduce, transitive verb_ To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect; to arrange the posture and drapery of (a person) in a studied manner, intransitive verb_ To place (a model, for example) in a specific position, To assume or hold a particular position or posture, as in sitting for a portrait,