“Hauteur” (haw-TUR) – from the French – is arrogance.
Example (as used by Hugo Young in The Guardian): “Sheikhs and presidents have often heard little about the [British] royal family’s follies, and don’t object to the hauteur and self-importance that remain its inextinguishable traits.”
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