Lesbierin
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Lesbierin f (genitive Lesbierin, plural Lesbierinnen, masculine Lesbier)
- female Lesbian (native or inhabitant of Lesbos)
- 1849, Theodor Panofka, Von den Namen der Vasenbildner in Beziehung zu ihren bildlichen Darstellungen, page 104:
- […] so bleibt uns nichts übrig, als in der goldnen Philomele die Lesbierin (294) Sappho zu vermuthen, die bekanntlich gleich Aphrodite für den […]
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- 1891, Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin, Ernst von Leutsch, Otto Crusius, Philologus, page 567:
- Die einzige dem Namen nach bekannte Siegerin in den larisäisch-pyläischen Kallisteia ist die Lesbierin Briseïs […]
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- 2019, Brian Oliver Murdoch, The Reception of the Legend of Hero and Leander, BRILL (→ISBN), page 179, quoting an earlier text:
- […] Aber zum lethischen Strom führe die Lesbierin.
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- (Do take the young woman of Sestos to Leander's breast, but lead the woman of Lesbos to the waters of Lethe).
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- (formal) lesbian (homosexual women)
- Synonym: (more common) Lesbe
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