Definition of "sapphist" []

• A lesbian. (noun)

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• "What I find transgressive about "Christabel" is the way in which it treads upon the fine line of external appearance that separates the gender-bending sapphist from the virtuous friend."
• "Lanser writes of "the fine line of external appearance that separates the gender-bending sapphist from the virtuous friend," I wonder about two things."
• "And Eleanor's reputation as a "sapphist" may be overstated given the number of little Roosevelt that she pumped out until she caught Franklin in an affair one of many - there was a reason that action figure looked a bit obscene."