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poesy

[poh-uh-see, -zee] / ˈpoʊ ə si, -zi /


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Actresses Sigourney Weaver, Clemence Poesy and Maggie Gyllenhaal also joined — applauding vigorously when the designer came out at the finale.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 5, 2022

The signatories backing the new fundraising appeal, published in the Liberation newspaper on Wednesday, include actresses Clemence Poesy, Julie Gayet, Kruger - who is German-American but lives partly in France - and author Leila Slimani.

From Reuters • Feb. 28, 2018

UK premieres include My Name is Hmmm…, the feature film directorial debut from French fashion icon Agnes b and Mr Morgan's Last Love, starring Michael Caine and Clemence Poesy.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2014

Who set the bar so high that most of our attempts to sail gracefully over it on the viewless wings of Poesy end in an undignified scramble or a nasty fall into the mud?

From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2013

Innumerable "Philosophies of Man," contending in boundless hubbub, must annihilate each other, before an inspired Poesy and Faith for Man can fashion itself together.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest




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