Definitions

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  • noun Unnatural sexual relations between women.

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  • noun lesbianism; female homosexuality

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  • noun female homosexuality

Etymologies

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Sappho, a poet of the isle of Lesbos (612 BCE - 570 BCE) + -ic

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Examples

  • [88] The term sapphism also came to describe traditional sex practices among women through the ages.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • [85] The term sapphism also came to describe traditional sex practices among women through the ages.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • [94] The term sapphism also came to describe traditional sex practices among women through the ages.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • [83] The term sapphism also came to describe traditional sex practices among women through the ages.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Lesbianism is also called sapphism or female homosexuality.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Conservative 2010

  • Viewers responded with fast and unrelenting obsession, as videos of Hayden's superheroic dip into sapphism quickly flooded the Internet.

    Mr. Skin: When Women Kiss: From TV Stunts to Mainstream Reality 2009

  • A febrile little tale of student-teacher sapphism at a posh French boarding school in the 1880s.

    Walk-In Closet 2006

  • A febrile little tale of student-teacher sapphism at a posh French boarding school in the 1880s.

    Walk-In Closet 2006

  • A febrile little tale of student-teacher sapphism at a posh French boarding school in the 1880s.

    Walk-In Closet 2006

  • Now the chief reason of her sojourn with her son, King Hardub of Greece, was on account of the slave virgins at his court: for she was given to tribadism410 and could not exist without sapphism or she went mad: so if any damsel pleased her, she was wont to teach her the art of rubbing clitoris against clitoris and would anoint her with saffron411 till she fainted away for excess of volupty.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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