单词 | poetastress |
释义 | poetastressn. rare. A female poetaster. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [noun] > minor poet or poetaster > female poetastress1664 poetette1913 rhymsterette1957 1664 Duchess of Newcastle CCXI Sociable Lett. cxlvi. 301 I am but a Poetastress, or a Petty Poetess, but howsoever, I am a Legitimate Poetical Child of Nature. a1832 J. Mackintosh Hist. Revol. Eng. (1834) vii. 206 Mrs. Behn, a loose and paltry poetastress of that age. 1980 Times 18 Nov. 12/6 Eliza Cook, the pious Victorian poetastress, whose verse, according to her biographer, appealed very strongly to the middle classes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1664 |
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