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adjective

Lesbian adj.

Of or pertaining to the island anciently called Lesbos, now Mitylene, in the Grecian Archipelago.

Amatory; erotic; in allusion to the reputed sensuality of the Lesbian people and literature; as, Lesbian novels. (archaic)

Homosexual; applied to female homosexuals.

noun

Lesbian n. A female homosexual.

Synonyms: dyke(vulgar, deprecatory).

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Etymology of 'Lesbian'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lesbian" Quotes from Famous Books

... Wond'rous occurrence! down the floating stream, The lyre a mournful moan sends forth; the lips, Now lifeless, murmur plaintive; and the bank Echoes the lamentations. Borne along To ocean, now his native stream they leave, And reach Methymna on the Lesbian shore. ...

— The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II • Ovid

... headquarter military, the fast set, staid luxury-loving civilians, and all the fierce eddies and undercurrents of the graded social life, in which the cold English heart learns to burn as madly under "dew of the lawn" muslin as ever Lesbian coryphe'e or Tzigane ...

— A Fascinating Traitor • Richard Henry Savage

... course I know there's Byron, Who by his own report could play the man; I seem to see him with his Lesbian lyre on, And brandishing a useful yataghan; Though never going altogether strong, he Managed at least to ...

— The Battle of the Bays • Owen Seaman

... doctors' inspections; in the nasty diseases, which are looked upon as lightly and facetiously, just as simply and without suffering, as a cold would be; in the deep revulsion of these women to men—so deep, that they all, without conception, compensate for it in the Lesbian manner and do not even in the least conceal it. All their incongruous life is here, on the palm of my hand, with all its cynicism, monstrous and coarse injustice; but there is in it none of that ...

— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin

... appears to be neither a classical play of the serene, typical quality of Iphigenia nor a Kuenstlerdrama in the sense in which Tasso is one. Grillparzer was not inspired by the meagre tradition of the Lesbian poetess, nor yet by anything more than the example of Goethe; he took only the outline of the story of Sappho and Phaon; his play is almost to be called a romantic love story, and the influence strongest upon him in the writing of it was that of Wieland. The situation out ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VI. • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

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