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Poe
1[poh]
noun
Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
POE
2port of embarkation.
POE
1abbreviation
military port of embarkation
port of entry
Poe
2/ əʊ /
noun
Edgar Allan. 1809–49, US short-story writer, poet, and critic. Most of his short stories, such as The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) and the Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840), are about death, decay, and madness. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) is regarded as the first modern detective story
Example Sentences
Poe is credited with writing the first American detective story, and Oates writes in the same vein.
The actor sits on a couch in a rented house in Los Feliz, his shoes kicked off to reveal socks patterned with the gloomy face of Edgar Allan Poe.
Under the new NIH formula, Poe’s indirect funding allowance would be minimal.
In the case of another client, John Poe, serving 64 years to life for murder, the L.A. district attorney’s office chided Spolin for wasting their time and resources.
They are opportunistic eaters of just about anything, but their consumption of carrion — their comfort with the dead — made them a bad omen long before Edgar Allan Poe turned them into a cliché.
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