Crossword clues for poetess
poetess
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Poetess \Po"et*ess\, n. [Cf. F. po['e]tesse.] A female poet.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, from poet + -ess. Earlier fem. form was poetresse (early 15c.). Old Norse had skaldkona "poetess."
Wiktionary
n. (context dated English) a female poet
WordNet
n. a woman poet
Usage examples of "poetess".
As far as I was concerned, the Earth Mothery American poetesses and the bearded, bearish Irish poets deserved each other.
Scarcely had the poetess got through her first stanza, when Tom Ingoldsby, in the enthusiasm of the moment, became so lost in the material world, that, in his abstraction, he unwarily laid his hand on the cock of the urn.
Knowles, the ingenious Quaker lady, Miss Seward, the poetess of Lichfield, the Reverend Dr. Mayo, and the Rev.
On Ascension Day, we all went to pay a visit to Madame Bergali, a celebrated Italian poetess.
Usually there was no review, poetry being left to accumulate in literary editors' offices until there was enough of it for one expert to do a single clean sweep in a grudging brief article, everybody -- Enderby, poetesses, poetasters, Sir George Goodby -- all fluffed up together.
About an empress, a poetess, a pop star, one might be opinionative, for such women either are frozen in the amber of history or are speeding with one down the illusionary road of one's own time.