Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A relationship between two intimate women friends who live together and are sometimes sexually involved.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Perhaps after the devoted women pairs from Boston depicted in The Bostonians by Henry James.]
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