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Synonyms for lesbian

Grammar : Adj
Spell : lez-bee-uh n
Phonetic Transcription : ˈlɛz bi ən

Définition of lesbian

Origin :
  • 1590s, "pertaining to the island of Lesbos," from Latin Lesbius, from Greek lesbios "of Lesbos," Greek island in northeastern Aegean Sea (the name originally may have meant "wooded"), home of Sappho, great lyric poet whose erotic and romantic verse embraced women as well as men, hence meaning "relating to homosexual relations between women" (1890; lesbianism in this sense is attested from 1870) and the noun, first recorded 1925. Before this, the principal figurative use (common in 17c.) was lesbian rule (c.1600) a mason's rule of lead, of a type used on Lesbos, which could be bent to fit the curves of a molding; hence, "pliant morality or judgment."
  • And this is the nature of the equitable, a correction of law where it is defective owing to its universality. ... For when the thing is indefinite the rule also is indefinite, like the leaden rule used in making the Lesbian moulding; the rule adapts itself to the shape of the stone and is not rigid, and so too the decree is adapted to the facts. [Aristotle, "Nicomachean Ethics"]
  • Cf. also tribadism.
  • adj gay
Example sentences :
  • It is called Lesbian love or saphism; and the women inverts are known as tribades.
  • Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
  • The style of carving of the cymatium with its astragal should be the Lesbian.
  • Extract from : « Ten Books on Architecture » by Vitruvius
  • No; then of course she was the tenth—and was not she "the Lesbian maid?"
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 » by Various
  • "Even the Lesbian swan was called the fair-haired," replied Florus.
  • Extract from : « The Emperor, Complete » by Georg Ebers
  • These years also constitute the golden age of Lesbian culture.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 4 » by Various
  • It is noticeable that of the four Lesbian poets three are women.
  • Extract from : « Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol I of 2) » by John Addington Symonds
  • The lesbian element is treated explicitly and with taste and charm.
  • Extract from : « Checklist » by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • In such scenes as these, the Lesbian poets lived and thought of love.
  • Extract from : « Greek Women » by Mitchell Carroll
  • This particular Lesbian was in no humor to be harshly treated.
  • Extract from : « Unleavened Bread » by Robert Grant
  • Plato ate olives and bread only; and the water he drank was scarcely tinged with Lesbian wine.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child

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