noun, feminine/mi.no.dʁi/plural: minauderies
affectation
“1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I” — As for master Nicolas, barber of the village, he assure that none could approach the knight Phoebus, and that if someone could be compared to him, it was the only don Galaor, brother of Amadis of Gaul; for he was equal to any occasion, without affectation, without grimaces, not a sniveller like his brother, and as for courage, did not yield to him an inch.