ˈmēn noun
( -s )
Etymology: by shortening & alteration (influenced by French mine appearance, perhaps from Breton min beak, snout) from demean (II)
1. : the air or bearing of a person especially as expressive of mood or personality : manner , expression
that mien of a commercial traveler who has been everywhere and through everything — Arnold Bennett
his mien of settled woe — Robertson Davies
usually presents a mien of solemnity — Current Biography
2. : appearance , aspect
dresses of fairly formal mien — Lois Long
a monster of most ferocious mien — G.W.Johnson
3. archaic : show , pretense — usually used in the phrase make mien
foreigners who … made mien to stay — F.B.Gummere