well-paraded

Updated: July 9, 2025

"And if you're what you say you are, you ought to be able to put it in running order for me." "Then you've a ranch?" he observed, stopping in his work. "A ranch and a husband and three children," I told him with the well-paraded air of a tabby-cat who's dragged her last mouse into the drawing-room. But my announcement didn't produce the effect I'd counted on.

Arthur Stringer - The Prairie Mother