Both Uses
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For Esme:--with Love and Squalor
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- The next thing I knew, the young lady was standing, with enviable poise, beside my table.
*poise = composure or grace
- She blushed-automatically conferring on me the social poise I'd been missing.†
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) Much more rarely, poise is a technical word referencing a unit of dynamic viscosity.