poetess

NOUN
  1. a woman poet
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How To Use poetess In A Sentence

  • How she just now speaketh soberly, this drunken poetess! hath she perhaps overdrunk her drunkenness? hath she become overawake? doth she ruminate? — Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
  • Unfortunately for him the dairymaid was a poetess, and she gave vent to her sorrow in verse, in which it may be assumed the tutor came in for much abuse. From John O'Groats to Land's End
  • A poet doesn’t want to marry a poetess, nor a philosopher a philosopheress. Phineas Redux
  • We were delighted when Maria Gertrude Kyle took a seat in our barouche on my mother's invitation, and she was well known as authoress and poetess, in our few Georgia papers. Country life in Georgia in the days of my youth,
  • Poet Mary O'Donnell, for example, has suggested "poetess", "authoress", "hysterical" and "as a mother"; but to me, these are bugbear words and phrases rather than tripping-up ones – she's disturbed by the way they're used rather than confused by the act of reading them. Which words disturb you?
  • She always had some little performance to entertain him: Rosa the schoolgirl, Rosa the fishwife, Rosa the poetess. SACRAMENT
  • His poetess is inspired by the Polish Roma poetess Papusza; 1910-1987. The Roma Poetess
  • I know that you have no desire to celebrate war on the face of it, like Owen's "poetess" - nor do I begin to presume to know the challenges or "virtus" of military life and warfare. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • All the poems centered about the poetess' individual fortunes and displayed tragic scenes and emotions which represented the principles of "poems emblem plaintiveness " by Confucius.
  • I've been using it as that (since I do not use it for anything else, and thus am less likely to accidentally activate my mic at the wrong time) for so many years that I don't know that I would adjust very well to changing to another key - and by now, I'm used to double-tapping the key to turn off the actual caps lock for when I begin typing again. ladypoetess NumLocker Disables The Caps Lock Key | Lifehacker Australia
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