rhymesters
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
rhymesters
- plural of rhymester
- 1675, Edward Phillips, Egerton Brydges, Theatrum poetarum anglicanorum: containing brief characters of the English poets, down to the year 1675, From the Press of Bonnant, page xxv:
- Writers of spritely songs, and rhymesters of pretty fancies, are wanting in all the primary constituents. They may give a sort of feeble emotion of pleasure; but they stir no great faculty.
- 1846, George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley, The American review, Volume 4, Wiley and Putnam, page 50:
- There must be many mere rhymesters; but making even this allowance, a respectable number of poets will be left.