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  • noun now literary Alternative form of poesy.

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Examples

  • [ "The term poesie populaire was employed, for the first time, in the

    The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • [ "The term poesie populaire was employed, for the first time, in the

    The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 08 Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • This impress M. Sainte-Beuve thought he found in the Antiquites de Rome, and the Regrets, which he ranks as what has been called poesie intime, that intensely modern sort of poetry in which the writer has for his aim the portraiture of his own most intimate moods, and to take the reader into his confidence.

    The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry Walter Pater 1866

  • Responding to such poetry, Titian, the greatest of all Venetian painters, the 16th century master whose influence lasted down the years to affect El Greco and Velázquez, Rubens and Poussin, Rembrandt, Reynolds and even Turner, painted what he chose to call his poesie - poems - his late contribution to the old debate over which art inspired by the Muses, painting or poetry, is the superior.

    Evening Standard - Home 2008

  • Responding to such poetry, Titian, the greatest of all Venetian painters, the 16th century master whose influence lasted down the years to affect El Greco and Velázquez, Rubens and Poussin, Rembrandt, Reynolds and even Turner, painted what he chose to call his poesie - poems - his late contribution to the old debate over which art inspired by the Muses, painting or poetry, is the superior.

    Evening Standard - Home 2008

  • Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 06: 29 AM tant pis au sujet de tes dents cherie ce n'est pas enfin la fin de ta vie mais tu m'amuse enormement avec telle jolie poesie

    composite - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • “Une petite slamme de poesie?” she replies, using up all the French she knows outside a Chef Boyardee can.

    My Poetic Nemesis Con Chapman 2011

  • Just can't forget this poesie by a love-sick lad facing being drafted in the near future.

    poesie - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • Listen to my daughter read aloud the first three quotes: Download poesie. wav Download poesie. mp3

    poesie - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • Listen to my daughter read aloud the first three quotes: Download poesie. wav Download poesie. mp3

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

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