Poe
[ poh ]
/ poʊ /
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noun
Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
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Poe
/ (pəʊ) /
noun
Edgar Allan. 1809–49, US short-story writer, poet, and critic. Most of his short stories, such as The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) and the Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840), are about death, decay, and madness. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) is regarded as the first modern detective story
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POE
abbreviation for
military port of embarkation
port of entry
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