tribade

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I am indebted to him for the following notes on this point That homosexual relationships are common enough among Indian women is evidenced by the fact that the Hindustani language has five words to denote the tribade: (1) dϊgαnα_, (2) zanΰkhι 3) sa'tar_, (4) chapathαi_, and (5) chapatbαz_.

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  1. noun A lesbian.

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  • I am indebted to him for the following notes on this point That homosexual relationships are common enough among Indian women is evidenced by the fact that the Hindustani language has five words to denote the tribade: (1) dϊgαnα_, (2) zanΰkhι 3) sa'tar_, (4) chapathαi_, and (5) chapatbαz_. —  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
  • Madame de Lamballe, who was guillotined at the Revolution, was popularly regarded as a tribade, and it was said that on this account her charming head received the special insults of the mob 146] Havelock Ellis, Man and Woman_, 5th ed., 1915, especially chapters xiii and xv 147] Karsch (_Jahrbuch fόr sexuelle Zwischenstufen_, vol. iii, 1901, pp. 85-9) brings together some passages concerning homosexuality in women among various peoples 148] Gandavo, quoted by Lomaeco, Archivio per l'Antropologia_, 1889, fasc. —  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
  • Or with thy tribade trine invent new sports; —  Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems
  • Hence the male féminisme whereby the man becomes patiens as well as agens, and the woman a tribade, a votary of mascula Sappho, [FN#364] Queen of Frictrices or Rubbers. [ —  Arabian nights. English
  • Plato, Plutarch and Cicero), treated boys and girls in the same way before marriage: hence Juvenal (xi. 173) uses '' Lacedæmonius "for a pathic and other writers apply it to a tribade. —  Arabian nights. English
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  1. French, from Latin tribas, tribad-, from Greek, from trībein, to rub; see tribology.

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  1. French, from Greek τριβάς (τριβαδ-), a woman who practises lewdness with other women.
 

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