Read full poem →Exalt the dance, or animate the song;
There, youths and nymphs, in consort gay,
Shall hail the rising, close the parting day.
Dictionary Entry
The spouse of a monarch.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. consortconsort princeconsort queenconsort royal
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Poetry examples for “consort”
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Read full poem →She said, and for her lost Galanthis sighs;
When the fair consort of her son replies:
'Since you a servant's ravish'd form bemoan,
Read full poem →His warlike Amazon her host invades,
The imperial consort of the crown of Spades.
The Club's black tyrant first her victim died,
Read full poem →Each sought a consort in that lovely place,
And virgin trebles wed the manly bass.
Read full poem →without ’em. And bv Gad’s lid I scorn it, I, so I
do, to be a consort for every hum-drum, hang-em
scroyls, there’s nothing in ’em, i’ the world. What
Read full poem →with a sort of gallants. Hence
to consort *to associate*.
Read full poem →A mortal nymph's[326] refusing lord to stay.
Who doubts, with Peleus Thetis did consort,
Egeria with just Numa had good sport.
Read full poem →After the death of Rizzio, Mary fled with Darnley to
Dunbar, where she and her consort were received by
Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell. He was the master hand in
Read full poem →Consort, both heart and lute, and twist a song
Pleasant and long;
Read full poem →So single chose to live, and shunned to wed,
Well pleased to want a consort of his bed.
Yet fearing idleness, the nurse of ill,