third sex

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A third gender, a category of people who are not male or female, or whose sexual roles, anatomy, or identities place them outside of the established male and female categories.

   “The words of St. Paul in Cor. vii., of Our Lord in Mat. xix., concerning the third sex of the eunuchs, and of St. John in Apoc. xiv., […]”

2. isim Gay people.

   ““Now in here,” their guide, sweating dark tentacles into his tab collar, briefed them, “you are going to see the members of the third sex, the lavender crowd this city by the Bay is so justly famous for.”

3. isim The clergy, the priesthood (seen as emasculate or not participating in sex).

   “The richest of the lands of Mexico were owned by the blackrobed members of [the] Third Sex, the Clergy. Over the humblest peon family they wielded supreme sway through their fat itinerant friars.”