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poesy

[poh-uh-see, -zee] / ˈpoʊ ə si, -zi /


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She eventually expanded into jewelry, offering oval filigree lockets, enamel vermeil zodiac charms and stackable gold bands that riff on 15th-century poesy rings.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2022

The White Album’s tonal and visual proximities begin with The Pure and the Damned, the music video from Oneohtrix Point Never featuring Iggy Pop’s eerie poesy, from the 2017 film Good Time.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 11, 2018

Costner delivers Dutton’s threats, pleas, and cowboy poesy in a rasp.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 20, 2018

To learn grammar was to appreciate the book’s poesy, which in turn was to break open a once-inaccessible text.

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2017

As for poesy, indeed, I love it well enough, but I am no poet:--and yet I think that a truly great poet is more powerful, and has a wider empire, than a king.

From Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Such ever-living poesies have a language heard, rather than understood by the poor girl, who yielded to vague misery among the shadows.

From The Hated Son by Honoré de Balzac

They praised each other's beauties ingenuously, spending treasures of language on these secret idylls, inventing soft exaggerations and more diminutives than the ancient muse of Tibullus, or the poesies of Italy.

From The Hated Son by Honoré de Balzac

"Camille thinks youth and beauty the first of poesies," said Claude Vignon.

From Beatrix by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

Still, the chief merit of the book, as a book, was the light and decided touch with which its author took up the follies and poesies of the day, and brought them all before us.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller

In 1855 she published Contes en vers, and in 1862 Contes et poesies.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg


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