psaltress

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English

Noun

psaltress (plural not attested)

  1. A woman who plays the psaltery.
    • 1835, Robert Browning, Paracelsus:
      Then all is still: earth is a wintry clod;
      But spring-wind, like a dancing psaltress, passes
      Over its breast to waken it; rare verdure
      Buds here and there upon rough banks []

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