Found 4 hits - Term: sapphic, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sapphic \sap"phic\, a. l. sapphicus, gr. ?, fr. ? sappho.
1. of or pertaining to sappho, the grecian poetess; as,
sapphic odes; sapphic verse.
1913 webster
2. pros. belonging to, or in the manner of, sappho; -- said
of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented
by sappho, consisting of five feet, of which the first,
fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee,
and the third a dactyl.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sapphic \sap"phic\, n. pros.
a sapphic verse.
1913 webster
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
sapphic
adj 1: a meter used by sappho and named after her
2: of female homosexuality syn: lesbian
see also:
lesbian
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
46 moby thesaurus words for "sapphic":
ac-dc, alcaic, anacreontic, castalian, homeric, hudibrastic,
pierian, pindaric, theocritean, amphierotic, autoerotic, bardic,
bisexed, bisexual, bucolic, butch, deviant, didactic, dithyrambic,
dramatic, eclogic, effeminate, elegiac, epic, gay, heroic,
homoerotic, homosexual, idyllic, lesbian, mannish, mock-heroic,
narrative, pastoral, perverted, poetic, poetico-mystical,
poetico-mythological, poetico-philosophic, poetlike, queer,
rhapsodic, runic, skaldic, transvestite, tribadistic
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