Both Uses of
poise
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- He became a glorified floor-walker, greeting the men with new poise, no longer coyly subservient to pretty women.†
Chpt 21 *
- The thing she gained in Washington was not information about office-systems and labor unions but renewed courage, that amiable contempt called poise.†
Chpt 37
Definitions:
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(1)
(poise) calm, confident, and in control—especially in movement, behavior, or when ready to act
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, poise is a technical word referencing a unit of dynamic viscosity.