psaltress
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[edit]Noun
[edit]psaltress (plural not attested)
- 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 […]