Meanings of sapphic in English

Of these the sapphic is the least perfected.

I had to guard against any sapphic hints.

The early 90s were a fallow time for famous lesbians -she quickly became a sapphic north star.

Its dreamlike mixture of horror, mystery and barely suppressed sapphic love stayed with audiences long after they left theatres.

If the eleventh and fifty-first odes be compared with the sapphic odes of Horace, the great metrical superiority of the latter will at once appear.

After the hexameter the most frequently imitated metre is the Sapphic strophe.

We shall meet it again when we look at Sapphic Odes in Chapter Three.

He is not a mere teacher of hexameters and sapphics.

Waters's Sapphic Wilkie Collins is transformed into a very different kind of mad potboiler.

The Sapphic and the Alcaic involve more difficult questions.

They had a go at his Sapphic verse too:

Marber's screen adaptation makes it clear that Barbara's friendship with and defense of Sheba springs from a strong Sapphic impulse.

Thaddeus preferred this pathetic whim to her former Sapphic follies; it afforded him quiet, and relieved him from much embarrassment.

And Wonder Woman frequently escapes to her Sapphic world of young, erotic women, where they lived to escape male domination.

One day when Sossius entertained us, upon singing some Sapphic verses, this question was started, how it could be true

In the meantime, their Sapphic crush takes their clandestine love underground, into an illicit, intriguing world of house parties and ecstasy.