Patmore

American  

[pat-mawr, -mohr] / ˈpæt mɔr, -moʊr /

noun

1. Coventry (Kersey Dighton) 1823–96, English poet and essayist.

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Patmore British  

/ ˈpætmɔː /

noun

1. Coventry ( Kersey Dighton ). 1823–96, English poet. His works, celebrating both conjugal and divine love, include The Angel in the House (1854–62) and The Unknown Eros (1877)

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Example Sentences

Daisy began her journey at Downton Abbey as a belabored kitchen maid, but eventually the estate’s revered cook Mrs. Patmore took her under her wing.

From Los Angeles Times

Through letters, diaries and photographs, Arrington explores the creative and political lives of Ezra and Dorothy Pound, W. B. and George Yeats, Richard Aldington and Brigit Patmore, and other poets living in Italy during Mussolini’s regime.

From New York Times

It’s a short leap between Patmore’s “lack of lovely pride, in her/ Who strives to please” and the piece of screenwriting shorthand that’s so common it’s become a cliche: “Enter Jane — hot but doesn’t know it.”

From Washington Post

She gave that self-sabotaging narrative a name: “The Angel in the House,” inspired by Coventry Patmore’s 1854 poem extolling the prim virtues of Victorian domesticity.

From Washington Post

“There was lobbying to keep thebaine out of the 80/20 rule,” said Peter Patmore, the attorney general for the state of Tasmania at the time, who led government efforts and noted the role of Glaxo and Tasmanian Alkaloids.

From Washington Post