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composeress

composeress noun: a female composer.

Noun

composeress (plural composeresses)

  1. (dated) A female composer.
    • By the way, another Russian composer, or composeress, named Ella Adajewsky, has had a work of hers successfully produced at the Opéra Comique, Vienna.1874 June 5, The Orchestra. A Weekly Review: Musical, Dramatic, and Literary., volume XXII, number 558, London, page 152, column 3
    • Altogether, this set of songs will, no doubt, make for the composeress a good and endurable name among cultivated musicians.1880 May 28, Musical Courier, volume I, number 17, New York, N.Y., page 237, column 1

Examples of composeress in a sentence

  • My favorite avant-garde composeress almost solved all questions about Beethoven, musicological and psychological, by summoning his disembodied spirit at a stance held in London on October 3, 1968.1982, Nicolas Slonimsky, “Onward to 2000”, in Cole Gagne, Tracy Caras, Soundpieces: Interviews With American Composers, Metuchen, N.J....
  • Hilda Tablet / The gifted composeress and fictitious subject of the Third Programme’s burlesque biography The Private Life of Hilda Tablet, first broadcast (of many) 24 May 1954.1985, Denis Gifford, The Golden Age of Radio: An Illustrated Companion, B.T. Batsford, →ISBN, page 116, column 1:
  • Although I never had the privilege of meeting that formidable composeress I feel I know her after learning of that pained welcome.1985, Steve Race, “I Love You, Jean Baillie Welsh. You Too, Ethel”, in You Can’t Be Serious: A Look at the Bizarre Side of Life, London...

Forms of composeress

pluralcomposeresses

Origin of composeress

From composer + -ess.

Questions about composeress

What does composeress mean?
Composeress means a female composer.
How do you use composeress in a sentence?
My favorite avant-garde composeress almost solved all questions about Beethoven, musicological and psychological, by summoning his disembodied spirit at a stance held in London on October 3, 1968.
What part of speech is composeress?
Composeress is a noun.
What is the plural of composeress?
The plural of composeress is composeresses.

Words near composeress in the dictionary

  1. composed salad
  2. composed salads
  3. composedly
  4. composedness
  5. composer
  6. composeress
  7. composeresses
  8. composerly
  9. composers
  10. composes
  11. composest

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