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Lesbian adj.

Of or pertaining to the island anciently called Lesbos, now Mitylene, in the Grecian Archipelago.

Amatory; erotic; in allusion to the reputed sensuality of the Lesbian people and literature; as, Lesbian novels. (archaic)

Homosexual; applied to female homosexuals.

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Etymology of 'Lesbian'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lesbian" Quotes from Famous Books

... rout that made the hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore. ...

— Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama - A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration - Stage in England • Walter W. Greg

... MAGNOLIA, "because, like the Lesbian Alcaeus, fighting for the liberty of his native Mitylene, he has sympathized with his native South, finds himself treated by Mr. DROOD with a lack of magnanimity of which even the renegade PITTACUS ...

— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870 • Various

Words linked to "Lesbian" : dike, gay, Alcaeus, Lesbos, tribade, homosexual, Sappho, Lesvos, dyke, Mytilene, Greek, butch, Hellene, gay woman, homophile