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composeress

noun

Etymology

From composer + -ess.

  1. derived from componere
  2. derived from composer
  3. inherited from composen
  4. formed as composer — “compose + -er”
  5. suffixed as composeress — “composer + ess”

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • Altogether, this set of songs will, no doubt, make for the composeress a good and endurable name among cultivated musicians.
    • The performance was given by members of the Leamington Opera Company, under the direction of Miss Lizzie St. Quinten and the author and composeress.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA