Meanings
adjectivelesbic (comparative more lesbic, superlative most lesbic)
comparative more lesbic · superlative most lesbic
- Pertaining to love between women; lesbian; sapphic.First known use 19th c.
Sons with mothers, sires with daughters, lesbic sisters, loves that dare not speak their name […].
1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 9: Scylla and Charybdis]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 199
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