Bessie

or Bes·sy

[ bes-ee ]

noun

1. a first name, form of Elizabeth.

Example Sentences

Cornelia Powers is a writer who is working on a book about the golfer Bessie Anthony, her great-great-grandmother.

From Los Angeles Times

As the Woodstone mansion’s resident Prohibition-era jazz singer, Pinnock drew inspiration from the likes of Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith for the overt confidence of her brassy, flamboyant character.

From Los Angeles Times

However, the free spiritedness of her music — an uncommon blend of old-time bluegrass, country, ragtime, folk and jazz, anchored by her powerhouse vocals that by turns recall Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton and Bessie Smith — remains largely the same.

From Los Angeles Times

Within the world of aviation, he was hailed as a trailblazer along with the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II and people such as Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman known to earn a pilot’s license.

From Seattle Times

She and her mother, Bessie Barber, moved to Atlanta to “make a better living” for themselves.

From Seattle Times