Meaning of tribade | Babel Free

Definitions

A woman who engages in sexual activity with another woman; a lesbian.

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Examples

“Go, cramp dull Mars, light Venus, when he snorts, / Or with thy tribade trine invent new sports; / Thou, nor thy looseness with my making sorts.”

“A century later, however, homosexuality among English women seems to have been regarded by the French as common, and Bacchaumont[…] added: "Her taste for women will there find attractive satisfaction, for though Paris furnishes many tribades it is said that London is herein superior."”

“I roused Zero’s suspicions because I began to behave too much like a woman and he started to watch me warily for signs of the tribade. If he had spied any, or surprised me fingering any of his girls, he would have shot me.”

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