Meaning of Sapphic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of Sapphic.
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2. A Sapphic verse.
3. A person who is sapphic.

Equivalents

Examples

“His Sapphics, on the story of Bacchus and Ariadne, are easy, elegant, and poetical.”

“The first line (which goes by the name of Aristophanes) is a Sapphic without the initial trochees.”

“"A real Sapphic," said Crane, dropping into a poetical tone, as an elocutionist does when he is hungry for an opportunity to recite a favorite sketch.”

“'Very good,” he said, 'although I must confess that the older I get, the less I am able to enjoy the company of women – except of course our own dear Enid who is so notorious a Sapphic as to be virtually hors concours.”

“There are many of us (yes, even in Utah) who are more style-conscious, socially involved and culturally aware Sapphics than the common opinion dictates.”

“Are you a fan of hate-to-love? Roommates? Royalty romances? Geology puns? Sapphics? Her Royal Highness has all of this and more. After Millie discovers her best friend turned maybe girlfriend kissing someone else, she decides to flee […]”

“Though they will not satisfy Mr. T. S. Omond's rules of quantity, and cannot be expected to reach Swinburne's exquisite sense of its balance, they give far more idea of the rhythm of Sappho than the body of English sapphics by other writers.”

“Statius, in the Silvae, does offer two “lyric” poems, one in alcaics and one in sapphics, but lyric poetry in any form and of any consequence does not recur until the Christian hymns of St. Ambrose and Prudentius, ...”

“April 29: Thao & The Get Down Stay Down host local rock sapphics Kera & the Lesbians.”

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