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tribade (ˈtrɪbəd, ‖ tribad) [a. F. tribade (16th c.), or ad. its source L. tribas, -ad-, Gr. τριβάς, τριβαδ-, f. τρίβειν to rub.] A woman who engages in sexual activity with other women; a Lesbian. Also attrib.
1601B. Jonson Forest x. Præludium, Light Venus..with thy tribade trine, invent new sports. 1890H. Ellis Criminal iii. § 7. 106 Such emblems are common among pæderasts and tribades. Hence ˈtribadism, (a) the activity of a tribade; (b) spec. in modern use (see quot. 1965); ˈtribady = tribadism (a).
1811–19Woods and Pirie v. Gordon (Index Catal. Libr. Surgeon-General's Office U.S.A. XIV. 752), Lady C. G...who had charged them with the practice of tribadism. 1864tr. Caspar's Forensic Med. (N. Syd. Soc.) III. 335 Tribadism. Even in the Old Testament there is distinct allusion to this form of sexual aberration. 1882Payne 1001 Nights II. 156. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl., Tribady. 1965New Statesman 26 Mar. 492/3 The first [technique of lesbian intercourse], known as ‘tribadism’, consists in one woman lying on top of the other and simulating the movements of heterosexual intercourse in such a way as to stimulate the clitoris of each. 1970G. Greer Female Eunuch 293 The prevalence of tribadism as the principal lesbian mode of lovemaking argues the relative unimportance of the masculine fantasy. |