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sapphic🔊

Lesbian, relating to lesbianism, or (broadly) to women who are attracted (not necessarily exclusively) to women.

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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.

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.

(poetry) A Sapphic verse.

A person who is attracted to women.