po|e|sy

po|e|sy «POH uh see, -zee», noun, plural -sies.

1. Archaic. a) poetry. b) a poem.

2. Obsolete. a motto or short inscription (often metrical, and usually in patterned or formal language).

╂[< Old French poësie, learned borrowing from Latin poēsis < Greek póēsis, variant of poiésis composition < poieîn; see etym. under poem. (Cf. ↑poem)]