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sapphic


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sapphic  \Sap"phic\,  a.  [L.  Sapphicus  Gr  ?,  fr  ?  Sappho.] 
  1.  Of  or  pertaining  to  Sappho,  the  Grecian  poetess;  as 
  Sapphic  odes;  Sapphic  verse. 
 
  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sapphic  \Sap"phic\,  n.  (Pros.) 
  A  Sapphic  verse. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  sapphic 
  adj  :  of  female  homosexuality  [syn:  {lesbian}] 




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