sapphic

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Relating to the Greek poetess Sappho from Lesbos or her poetry.
2. sıfat Of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five metrical feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl.
3. sıfat Alternative letter-case form of sapphic.
4. isim A Sapphic verse.

   “His Sapphics, on the story of Bacchus and Ariadne, are easy, elegant, and poetical.”

5. isim A person who is sapphic.

   “'Very good,” he said, 'although I must confess that the older I get, the less I am able to enjoy the company of women – except of course our own dear Enid who is so notorious a Sapphic as to be virtually hors concours.”

6. sıfat Lesbian, relating to lesbianism, or (broadly) to women who are attracted (not necessarily exclusively) to women.

   “Clinton and I became peripherally involved with a pair of Leckford Road girls who, principally sapphic in their interests, would arrange for sessions of group frolic.”

7. isim Alternative letter-case form of Sapphic.

   “Though they will not satisfy Mr. T. S. Omond's rules of quantity, and cannot be expected to reach Swinburne's exquisite sense of its balance, they give far more idea of the rhythm of Sappho than the body of English sapphics by other writers.”