Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A woman who plays upon the psaltery.

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Examples

  • “spring-wind, as a dancing psaltress,” passing over the earth, is marred by the presence of “young volcanoes”

    Robert Browning Dowden, Edward 1904

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