Meanings (ES + gloss)
contonearse • pavonearse
To walk haughtily or proudly with one's head held high.
He strutted about the yard, thinking himself master of all he surveyed.
[...] I trow it is enough to make a man forswear the very mother that bore him, and to wish that he had never had one, when one is cooped up in a gloomy hole like this, to watch a…