sapphist


sap·phic

S0084500 (săf′ĭk)adj. Of or relating to lesbianism.
[After Sappho, known for her homoerotic poetry.]
sap′phism (săf′ĭz′əm) adj.sap′phist n. & adj.

Sap·phic

S0084500 (săf′ĭk)adj.1. Of or relating to the Greek poet Sappho.2. a. Of, relating to, or being a verse characteristic of Sappho, containing 11 syllables and consisting of a trochee, a spondee or trochee, a dactyl, a trochee, and a spondee or trochee.b. Relating to or being a stanza of three such verses followed by a verse consisting of a dactyl followed by a spondee or trochee.c. Relating to or being an ode made up of such stanzas.d. Of, relating to, or being a verse, stanza, or poem in accentual-syllabic meter composed in imitation of Sapphic quantitative verse.n. A Sapphic meter, verse, stanza, or ode.

sapphist

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