sapphic en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈsæfɪk/ (UK, US)
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Etymology
From Sapphic.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Lesbian, relating to lesbianism, or (broadly) to women who are attracted (not necessarily exclusively) to women.
Her lyrics are deeply personal and wide reaching and she weaves in indignation at the state of American politics while simultaneously exploring her identity as a black sapphic [pansexual] woman.
2018 December 10, Jess Taylor Weissner, review of Janelle Monae, Dirty Computer, in The Courier, page 18Perhaps the queer, unnatural, and possibly disturbing conjunctions of the trans and nonbinary sapphic can help to do just that.
2023 July 26, Susan S. Lancer, SAME/DIFFERENCE? TOWARD A SAPPHIC/NONBINARY SEXUALITY OF HISTORY, in https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/hith.12319[...] and rumor had it that the Margo—Eve relationship was inspired by the bisexual Bankhead and her Skin of Our Teeth understudy [...] (The 1947 film version teamed Humphrey Bogart with sapphic stars Barbara Stanwyck and Alexis Smith.)
2013, Boze Hadleigh, Broadway Babylon: Glamour, Glitz, and Gossip on the Great White Way, Back Stage Books, →ISBN, page 194:Clinton and I became peripherally involved with a pair of Leckford Road girls who, principally sapphic in their interests, would arrange for sessions of group frolic.
2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22:
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Translations (13)
ru лесби́йский (relating to lesbianism) · it saffico (relating to lesbianism) · ga Safach (relating to lesbianism) · hu szapphói (relating to lesbianism) · sv sapfisk (relating to lesbianism) · es sáfico (relating to lesbianism) · pl saficki (relating to lesbianism) · fi sapfinen (relating to lesbianism) · no sapfisk (relating to lesbianism) · bg лесбийски (relating to lesbianism) · fr lesbien (relating to lesbianism) · de sapphisch (relating to lesbianism) · fi sapfolainen (relating to lesbianism)