songstress
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Étymologie
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songstress \Prononciation ?\ |
songstresses \Prononciation ?\ |
songstress \sɒŋstrəs\ ou \ˈsɑŋɡ.stɹɪs\ ou \sɔːŋstrəs\ (pour un homme, on dit : songster)
- Chanteuse.
It is not as deeming thee ranked with gods that I and these children are suppliants at thy hearth, but as deeming thee first of men, both in life’s common chances, and when mortals have to do with more than man : seeing that thou camest to the town of Cadmus, and didst quit us of the tax that we rendered to the hard songstress ; and this, though thou knewest nothing from us that could avail thee, nor hadst been schooled ; no, by a god’s aid, ’tis said and believed, didst thou uplift our life.
— (Sophocle, traduction en anglais de Richard Claverhouse Jebb, ΟΙΔΙΠΟΥΣ ΤΥΡΑΝΝΟΣ (The Œdipus Tyrannus) in Sophocles, The plays and fragments, Part I, 3e édition, Presses universitaires de Cambridge, 1893, page 17 (traduction des vers 31 à 44))The songstress was an entertainer whose popularity increased in Umayyad times, reaching a climax in the Abbasid period, when she very often emerged as a talented poetess.
— (Irfan Shahîd, Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, Volume II, Part II, 2009, page 186)- La chanteuse était une artiste dont la popularité s'est accrue à l'époque omeyyade pour atteindre son apogée à l'époque abbasside, où elle s'est très souvent révélée être une poétesse de talent.
- (Par analogie) (Ornithologie) Oiseau chanteur femelle.
As we cannot expect our winged songstress from Egypt till long after her more attractive sisters appear in their annual migration from Italy on our coasts, we must persuade some young lady to imitate these notes for us on her piano, and delude us into the persuasion that the Spring has already arrived.
— (The Gentleman’s Magazine, Volume IX, 2nd series, 1838, page 117)“HIGH in the air and poised upon its wings,
— (Katherine Clarke, Wood-Lark in Dew Drops, William Clee, Cheltenham, 1872)
Unseen, the soft enamour’d Wood-Lark sings.”
Thou plaintive songstress! rising from thy nest
With mellow, flute-like voice, and spotted breast,—
How beautiful thy notes when hovering high
Piping thy thrilling tones amid the sky ; […]