Meanings
nounPersian love (uncountable)
- datedeuphemisticuncountablemale homosexuality
The Lesbian is the analogue among women of Persian love among men, and this perversion takes place in two ways, either by friction of the two female bodies, known as tribadism, or by the tongue, designated as cunnilinguism.
1908, Medical Council: Volume 13, page 12
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