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  • noun One who composes verses; a poet.

Etymologies

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verse +‎ maker

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Examples

  • It seems as if there were no place left now for the wandering versemaker, and that

    Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish Lady Gregory 1892

  • From the city of broad shoulders, creeping into our hearts like little cat feet, comes a new American versemaker, Rod Blagojevich.

    Gawker 2009

  • Beat the Favourite "that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a versemaker.

    Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon Adam Lindsay Gordon 1851

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