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sapphic

/saf-ik/US // ˈsæf ɪk //UK // (ˈsæfɪk) //

萨普菲

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to Sappho or to certain meters or a form of strophe or stanza used by or named after her.
    • : lesbian.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a Sapphic verse.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • They would later be dubbed a “bloodthirsty” “lesbian she-wolf pack” and—most famously—“a seething, Sapphic septet.”

  • No doubt she's sitting in her sapphic palace cackling on her money.

  • The game has a long history in media and popular culture, and its depictions have hardly all been Sapphic.

  • Already I hear the wanton breezes sighing in Sapphic softness and the forests' elegiac murmur.

  • Virgilius Mars wrote in hexameters; Horatius Flaccus in alcaic, sapphic, and anapestic verse.

  • The Sapphic strophe of Francisco de la Torre has been not infrequently imitated.

  • Lesbian, or Sapphic love is, so Taxel claims, prevalent to an enormous degree among the fashionable ladies of Paris.

  • The Asclepiadeian stanza he employs much less frequently, the Sapphic only once, and that with indifferent success.