Composeress

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A female composer. dated

    "By the way, another Russian composer, or composeress, named Ella Adajewsky, has had a work of hers successfully produced at the Opéra Comique, Vienna."

Example

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"By the way, another Russian composer, or composeress, named Ella Adajewsky, has had a work of hers successfully produced at the Opéra Comique, Vienna."

Etymology

From composer + -ess.

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