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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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