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lesbian rule en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, especially, in the context of sexuality, rare) Alternative letter-case form of Lesbian rule.
   alt of Lesbian rule
   • It has to be, shall we say, you have to work with a lesbian rule, I suppose! You know what a lesbian rule is? It's a rule that you can bend. 1993, Wolfgang Görtschacher, “Little Magazines Profiles: The Little Magazines in Great Britain, 1939-1993”, in Poetry, Salzburg:
   • Using slides of photographs from advertising and art, the authors discuss the importance of using "lesbian rules" (a term deriving from a mason's tool that allows measuring flexibility) to understand the dimensions of sexual expression […] 1998, Continuing Medical Education Syllabus and Scientific Proceedings in Summary Form: Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association:
   • In an attempt to build a few intertextual bridges, we use images from lesbian literature to illustrate principles we find most useful in thinking psychoanalytically about homosexuality. We call these principles lesbian rules. A lesbian rule was originally a mason's rule made of lead […] Thus, figuratively, it became, […] "a principle allowing flexibility." […] Clinical psychoanalysis uses many such lesbian rules. 2013, Maggie Magee, Diana C. Miller, Lesbian Lives: Psychoanalytic Narratives Old and New, Routledge, →ISBN:

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