Gosse

[ gaws, gos ]

/ gɔs, gɒs /

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noun

Sir Edmund William, 1849–1928, English poet, biographer, and critic.

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How to use Gosse in a sentence

This Mr. Gosse ingeniously, but not satisfactorily, appropriates as the main support of his chronology.
Sir Walter Ralegh|William Stebbing
Mr. Gosse had said that "the natural uses of English and the obvious forms of our speech will be driven from our poetry."
Mr. Punch's History of Modern England Vol. IV of IV.|Charles L. Graves
Rogers's own copy of this, which (it may be added), he held in horror, now belongs to Mr. Edmund Gosse.
De Libris: Prose and Verse|Austin Dobson
Papa called it phosphorescence; and to-day we saw all about it under the microscope, and read about it in Mr Gosse's book.
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 696|Various

Gosse tells us that it is still a common belief in Jamaica that crested snakes exist there which crow like a cock.
Mythical Monsters|Charles Gould

British Dictionary definitions for Gosse

Gosse

/ (ɡɒs) /

noun

Sir Edmund William. 1849–1928, English critic and poet, noted particularly for his autobiographical work Father and Son (1907)

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