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Stroke: airs

'Sign airs" (also: "have many pretensions" ). DRAE = According to " presumption or vanity." Also used (always plural) to define a person conceited, fatuous and self-infused. The phrase is also equivalent to " have many smoke "and" putting on airs, " . In conclusion, we say that someone" has pretensions "when that person adopts an air of superiority against others or themselves is attributed more importance than it actually belongs or boast or brag of qualities that do not have. Generally, it has a negative connotation. For example: "That poor devil (poor man) is given pretensions of grandeur." However, in the first edition of "Dictionary of Authorities", published in the eighteenth century and was, in fact, the first lexicon published by the Royal Academy, the same term has a different meaning. With it were given to understand that someone had reasonable expectations of achieving a high position or some kind of privilege.

But where does the word "conceit"? As so often is a definition derived from the Latin word infula (plural: infulae ). Formerly airs were called to strips of wool or silk from which hung two airs The tapes were used by senior leaders, high priests of Apollo and Diana, as well as some vestal virgins, who wrap around head as a mark of his high rank, or dignity. With those same strips, wide bands appeared and could be white or purple, also adorned the animals that were being offered in sacrifice the gods. As more conceit is placed on the victim, most important was the offering, and therefore most prestigious was the owner. Later, the word would be used airs to name each of the two ribbons hanging from the bishop's miter and, as they were made and more or less richly ornamented, more or less reflected the importance of the bishopric. Over the years, have evolved airs. Thus, currently airs laterally but do not hang down the back starting the back of the miter. In addition, instead of wealth and ostentation that characterized to the Middle Ages, now only airs usually worn as a simple cross ornament and emblem of the bishop.