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tribadic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /tɹɪˈbæd.ɪk/
  • trĭbădʹĭk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tribadicus. By surface analysis, tribade + -ic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Relating to tribadism.
    • Brantôme in the sixteenth century referred to the Lesbianism of Turkish women at the baths, and Leo Africanus in the same century mentioned the tribadism of Moorish women and the formal organization of tribadic prostitution in Fez. 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, 3rd edition, volume 2: