Noun

(en noun)

A grooming or posturing.

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Noun

(en-noun)

Ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause.

(obsolete) A show or spectacle.

* 1599 ,

Let her awhile be secretly kept in,

And publish it that she is dead indeed:

Maintain a mourning ostentation ;