sapphic
see also: Sapphic
Pronunciation
Sapphic
Pronunciation
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see also: Sapphic
Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /ˈsæf.ɪk/
sapphic (not comparable)
- Lesbian, relating to lesbianism, or (broadly) to women who are attracted (not necessarily exclusively) to women.
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22 ↗: - Clinton and I became peripherally involved with a pair of Leckford Road girls who, principally sapphic in their interests, would arrange for sessions of group frolic.
- 2013, Boze Hadleigh, Broadway Babylon: Glamour, Glitz, and Gossip on the Great White Way, Back Stage Books (ISBN 9780307830135), page 194:
- [...] and rumor had it that the Margo—Eve relationship was inspired by the bisexual Bankhead and her Skin of Our Teeth understudy [...] (The 1947 film version teamed Humphrey Bogart with sapphic stars Barbara Stanwyck and Alexis Smith.)
- 2018 December 10, Jess Taylor Weissner, review of Janelle Monae, Dirty Computer, in The Courier ↗, page 18:
- Her lyrics are deeply personal and wide reaching and she weaves in indignation at the state of American politics while simultaneously exploring her identity as a black sapphic [pansexual] woman.
sapphic (plural sapphics)
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- 1909, The Academy and Literature:
- Though they will not satisfy Mr. T. S. Omond's rules of quantity, and cannot be expected to reach Swinburne's exquisite sense of its balance, they give far more idea of the rhythm of Sappho than the body of English sapphics by other writers.
- 2002, Michael Paschalis, Horace and Greek Lyric Poetry, Michael Paschalis (ISBN 9789607143181), page 1:
- Statius, in the Silvae, does offer two “lyric” poems, one in alcaics and one in sapphics, but lyric poetry in any form and of any consequence does not recur until the Christian hymns of St. Ambrose and Prudentius, ...
- 2016 April 25, DT News ↗ [Los Angeles Downtown News], page 17:
- April 29: Thao & The Get Down Stay Down host local rock sapphics Kera & the Lesbians.
- 1909, The Academy and Literature:
Sapphic
Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /ˈsæf.ɪk/
sapphic (not comparable)
- Relating to the Greek poetess Sappho from Lesbos or her poetry.
- (poetry) Of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five metrical feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl.
- Alternative letter-case form of sapphic: relating to sexual or romantic intimacy between women.
- French: saphique
- Spanish: sáfico, lesbio
sapphic (plural sapphics)
- (poetry) A Sapphic verse.
- A person who is sapphic.
- 2011 March 17, Annalisa Millo, A great year for lesbians, in QSaltake ↗, issue 176, page 33:
- There are many of us (yes, even in Utah) who are more style-conscious, socially involved and culturally aware Sapphics than the common opinion dictates.
- 2019 Summer, Gretal M. (19), review of Her Royal Highness, by Rachel Hawkins in The Chuckanut Reader ↗, page 71:
- Are you a fan of hate-to-love? Roommates? Royalty romances? Geology puns? Sapphics? Her Royal Highness has all of this and more. After Millie discovers her best friend turned maybe girlfriend kissing someone else, she decides to flee […]
- 2011 March 17, Annalisa Millo, A great year for lesbians, in QSaltake ↗, issue 176, page 33:
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