poetess
Americannoun
Gender
See -ess.
Etymology
Origin of poetess
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To paraphrase the late, venerable American poetess, Maya Angelou: our nation is a multi-colored ocean, leaping and wide, welling and swelling, we bear the tide.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2023
Her great-grandmother, a Vassar-educated Italian poetess named Concetta Reynolds, is mentioned in passing in the film, whereas in the book she is a crucial part of Dan Torrance’s plan to defeat the True Knot.
From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2019
Tova, a simple name, a popular name, not quite suited to a young poetess.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 7, 2019
The protest came from a group of angry ladies led by Robin Morgan, 27, poetess and housewife.
From Time ● Sep. 12, 2016
I like to think that at some of those performances, they heard the songs of Ts’ai Yen, a poetess born in A.D.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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