Sapphic
Sometimes sap·phic .
of, relating to, or being a woman who is sexually or romantically attracted to other women, used especially as an umbrella term for all women who are attracted to women.
pertaining to Sappho or to certain meters or a form of strophe or stanza used by or named after her.
Greek Literature. a verse using certain meters or forms used by or named after Sappho.
Slang.Sometimes sap·phic . a woman who is sexually or romantically attracted to other women.
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How to use Sapphic in a sentence
They would later be dubbed a “bloodthirsty” “lesbian she-wolf pack” and—most famously—“a seething, Sapphic septet.”
‘Out in the Night’ and the Redemption of the ‘Killer Lesbian Gang' | Nina Strochlic | June 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNo doubt she's sitting in her Sapphic palace cackling on her money.
The game has a long history in media and popular culture, and its depictions have hardly all been Sapphic.
Already I hear the wanton breezes sighing in Sapphic softness and the forests' elegiac murmur.
Under the Rose | Frederic Stewart IshamVirgilius Mars wrote in hexameters; Horatius Flaccus in alcaic, Sapphic, and anapestic verse.
The Green Book | Mr Jkai
The Sapphic strophe of Francisco de la Torre has been not infrequently imitated.
Modern Spanish Lyrics | VariousLesbian, or Sapphic love is, so Taxel claims, prevalent to an enormous degree among the fashionable ladies of Paris.
Woman and Socialism | August BebelThe Asclepiadeian stanza he employs much less frequently, the Sapphic only once, and that with indifferent success.
Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry | Wilhelm Alfred Braun
British Dictionary definitions for Sapphic
/ (ˈsæfɪk) /
prosody denoting a metre associated with Sappho, consisting generally of a trochaic pentameter line with a dactyl in the third foot
of or relating to Sappho or her poetry
lesbian
prosody a verse, line, or stanza written in the Sapphic form
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