It was an age of Poseurs-the age of the "professional air."
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
Shirley laughed outright and regretted that she did not have her kodak to take back to America some idea of their grotesque appearance, and she listened with amused interest as Jefferson explained that these men were notorious Poseurs, aping the dress and manners of the old-time student as he flourished in the days of Randolph and Mimi and the other immortal characters of Murger's Bohemia.
"The Lion and the Mouse A Story of an American Life"
Charles Klein
Perhaps all tramps are Poseurs.
"Emerson and Other Essays"
John Jay Chapman