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song·stress

(sông′strĭs, sŏng′-)

1. A woman who performs songs, especially ballads or popular songs.

2. A woman who writes songs. See Usage Note at -ess.

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song•stress

(ˈsɔŋ strɪs, ˈsɒŋ-)

n.

a woman who sings, esp. one who sings popular songs.

[1695–1705]

usage: See -ess.

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Noun

songstress - a woman songster (especially of popular songs)

songster - a person who sings

songstress

noun

A person who sings:

singer, songster, vocalist, voice.

Translations

chanteuse

énekesnő

cantante

zangeres

songstress

[ˈsɒŋstrɪs] N → cantante f

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songstress

n → Sängerin f

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"There, my dear princess, I've brought you my songstress," said the count, bowing and looking round uneasily as if afraid the old prince might appear.

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Art thou not he who coming to the town of Cadmus freed us from the tax we paid To the fell songstress? Nor hadst thou received Prompting from us or been by others schooled; No, by a god inspired (so all men deem, And testify) didst thou renew our life.

Or how without sign assured, can I blame Him who saved our State when the winged songstress came, Tested and tried in the light of us all, like gold assayed?

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"Villa Kennan the Thrush-throated Songstress, and Sing Song Silly the Irish-Terrier Tenor," her husband pictured the head-lines for her.

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One far stronger than you now holds you fast, and you must go wherever I take you, songstress as you are.

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Once hadst thou wild dogs in thy cellar: but they changed at last into birds and charming songstresses.

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In a round up of what MTV called "aw, shucks adorable moments" of Bell, the songstress was considered to be "the most adorable person ever," and though reportedly admitting that she wouldn't be showing off her pipes at the 2014 CMT Music Awards, Bell still brandished her singing talent during the opening of the show as showed in a video clip by (http://www.cmt.com/videos/misc/1051047/2014-cmt-music-awards-show-open.jhtml) CMT .

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Scurrilous Stateside rumour-mongers would have had us believe 18-year- old songstress Joss Stone had been dropped as the face of Gap over her OcontroversialO relationship with live-in lover, Beau Dozier, 25.