Etymology

hauteur

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Today it means: Haughtiness or arrogance; loftiness. Full definition →

French hauteur
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The story

  1. Frenchhaut
  2. Frenchhauteur
  3. English todayhauteur

Borrowed from French hauteur.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.