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Noun
clele
- male-bodied person who lives as a woman and does women's work, especially basket-work
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References
- University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, volume 33 (1965, edited by Frederick Ward Putnam and Alfred Louis Kroeber): Several berdaches (clele) known; did women's work (their baskets finer than women's); bothered no one.
- Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men