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poetess

DEFINITIONS OF: poetess

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n a woman poet

Examples:
Edna Saint Vincent Millay
United States poet (1892-1950)
Sappho
the Greek lyric poet of Lesbos; much admired although only fragments of her poetry have been preserved (6th century BC)
Type of:
poet
a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
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