posture making (posturma"king)

The art or practice of posturing, or making contor tions of the body. Your comedy and mine will have been played then, and we shall be removed, O how far, from the trumpets, and the shouting, and the posture - making ! Thackeray , Vanity Fair, lxi. posture-mastert (pos'tūr-mås"tèr), n. Same as posture - maker . Posture masters, as the acrobats were then called, abounded, and one of the chief among them was Higgins, who could dislocate and deform himself at pleasure. J. Ashton , Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, I. 280. [ posture + -er1.] posturer (pos'tūr-ér), n . A posture-maker; an acrobat. Same as posturer . posturist (pos'tur-ist), n. [ posture + -ist.]