as in minstrel
a person who writes poetry
Emily Dickinson is famous as the poet who rarely left the house but often journeyed to the depths of the human heart
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Montana is a poet Richard's youngest child, Montana, is a poet living in New York City.
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Emily Blackwood, People.com, 26 Oct. 2024
Paris’s godfather, the celebrated poet Tom Healy, officiated their ceremony.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2024
Located just outside Mougins (a village once resided by poets Paul Eluard, Jean Cocteau, and Christian Dior), the hotel is set within a 4.5-hectare estate that overlooks the hills of Grasse and the Caussols plateau.
—Felicity Carter, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
The garden’s sculptures abound with possible literary references, from Ovid and Petrarch to later Italian poets like Dante Alighieri and Ludovico Ariosto.
—Lanta Davis and Vince Reighard, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
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Emily Blackwood, People.com, 26 Oct. 2024
Paris’s godfather, the celebrated poet Tom Healy, officiated their ceremony.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2024
Located just outside Mougins (a village once resided by poets Paul Eluard, Jean Cocteau, and Christian Dior), the hotel is set within a 4.5-hectare estate that overlooks the hills of Grasse and the Caussols plateau.
—Felicity Carter, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
The garden’s sculptures abound with possible literary references, from Ovid and Petrarch to later Italian poets like Dante Alighieri and Ludovico Ariosto.
—Lanta Davis and Vince Reighard, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poet
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One in which a racially stereotypical minstrel image seemed to be depicted in their latest U.S. campaign.Doug Melville, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
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His father, who died when Marshall was 10, occasionally sang in a minstrel act and Marshall’s sister, actor Joanne Dru, worked as a showgirl at the Copa Club.Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
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In the beginning, there was just one, unnamed, muse.Alison Habens, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
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Near the brocade sofas, jewelry designer Presley Oldham posed for a commemorative selfie with muse Louisa Jacobson—the cool-girl actor dripping in a halter top of baroque string pearls, diamonds, and moonstones.Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2024
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According to Open Source Shakespeare, a web page containing all of the bard’s plays, poems and sonnets, there are 884,421 words in the entire works of Shakespeare.David Hodari, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024
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Later in the year, the celebration continued with the release of 12 D&D Minifigures, including an elf bard, a dwarf barbarian and a witch queen.Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2024
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“Poet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poet. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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