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songstress

[sawng-stris, song-] / ˈsɔŋ strɪs, ˈsɒŋ- /


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Veteran songstress Madonna is appealing for the return of missing costumes she wore during her recent Coachella set with Sabrina Carpenter.

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

Upstairs, there is a moody crystal room filled with crystals, a cozy couch, and a slew of musical instruments—making it the perfect spot for the songstress to record her hits.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 21, 2026

The TikTok-savvy songstress has since settled in, even referencing L.A.’s “weeping” mountains, and Sunset Boulevard in a collaboration with the Icelandic Philharmonic called “California and Me.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2024

And in the words of the songstress herself, that's caused a lot of bad blood.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2024

The words songstress and seamstress, besides being, as far as concerns the intermixture of languages, in the predicament of shepherdess, have, moreover, a double feminine termination; 1st. -str, of Germanic, 2nd. -ess, of classical, origin.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)