poetess - use in sentences

Adjective modifier

  • American: Elizabeth Brigham Rooney is an American poetess who died in February 1999.
  • Greek: Sappho was a much-admired Greek lyric poetess, who taught the arts on the Greek island of Lesbos.
  • celebrated: Sapphire Sappho Name Origin: Celebrated poetess of ancient Greece, whose odes have in part been preserved to us.

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