sapphic

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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.