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Lesbian orders a pie that is taken with chips
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sapphic
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sapphic \Sap"phic\, n. (Pros.) A Sapphic verse.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. a meter used by Sappho and named after her of female homosexuality [syn: lesbian ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Relating to lesbianism; lesbian.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500, "of or pertaining to Sappho," from French saphique , from Latin Sapphicus , from Greek Sapphikos "of Sappho," in reference to Sappho , poetess of the isle of Lesbos c.600 B.C.E. Especially in reference to her characteristic meter; sense of "pertaining ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sapphic can refer to: Related to Sappho , a 7th-century BC poet Sapphic stanza , a four line poetic form Sapphic love , related to female homosexuality
Usage examples of sapphic.
Swinburne, in his Sapphics and Hendecasyllables, while writing on a manifestly artistic conception of those metres, and, in my judgment, proving their possibility for modern purposes by the superior rhythmical effect which a classically trained ear enabled him to make in handling them, neglects position as a rule, though his nice sense of metre leads him at times to observe it, and uniformly rejects any approach to the harsh combinations indulged in by other writers.
We were the embodiment of a fiery Sapphic romance gone awry under the merciless strictures of Victorian society.
True, they had been trying to kill herall the ones she had killedbut they were still people, and Sapphic Cyclans considered killing people as primal dissonance.
And who is the Mother Goddess except a Sapphic analogue of the Erotic Mother?
This is the key to his secure rooms, stolen and copied for me by my closest friend, the wonderfully sapphic pillow girl, Plum Blossom.
DeCarlo Midnight Mistress Audrey Goodwin Mistress Margot: A Tale of Sapphic SlaverySusanna Valent Mrs.
Before his twenty-fifth birthday he has written: Ten books of lyrics, panegyrics, and pastorals, mostly in hexameters but also some hendeca-syllabics and many Sapphics, Alcaics.