sapphism

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Sapphic pride flag

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)

  1. 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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