daughter of Sappho

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daughter of Sappho (plural daughters of Sappho)

  1. A homosexual woman.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:gay woman
    • 2002, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Lying on the Postcolonial Couch: The Idea of Indifference, page 216:
      Traces of the answer, I submit, are to be discerned in all writings by the daughters of Sappho or the descendents[sic] of the tenth muse—Yourcenar, Paglia, Mehta, Patkar, et al. Women want what most men will never admit that they also want — women want to know what it is to belong to another sex.