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English
Etymology
From Sappho (“a poet of the isle of Lesbos (612 B.C.E. - 570 B.C.E.)”) + -ism.
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sapphism (usually uncountable, plural sapphisms)
- Lesbianism; female homosexuality.
1795 December 9, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Thraliana:Its odd that yᵉ Roman Women did not borrow that horrible Vice from Greece—it has a Greek name now & is called Sapphism, but I never did hear of it in Italy where the Ladies are today exactly what Juvenal described them in his Time—neither better nor worse as I can find.
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