(a.) Of or pertaining to Sappho, the Grecian poetess; as, Sapphic odes; Sapphic verse.
(a.) Belonging to, or in the manner of, Sappho; -- said of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl.
(n.) A Sapphic verse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Willow (Alyson Hannigan), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (WB) 1997-2003 Buffy's helper who discovered her witch powers and Sapphic nature in the course of the series.
(2) Lesbians on TV CJ Lamb (Amanda Donohoe), LA Law (NBC) 1991 First Sapphic kiss on primetime TV, between CJ and Abby (Michele Greene).
(3) In one of the emblematic strands of the novel, the orderly Joseph Grand is looking throughout for the right words to perfect his vision of a woman rider out in the Bois de Boulogne: this recurrent sentence works like the little phrase of Vinteuil, hinting at a kind of Proustian Sapphic splendour in the distant capital of moral adventure and sexual consumption; the "svelte Amazon" embodies the preposterous hopes and dreams of an everyman in exile.
(4) So it was hardly surprising when Shakira and Rihanna's video for new single Can't Remember to Forget You was made complete with some saucy images of Sapphic seduction.
(5) Though her subsequent releases are hardly as Sapphic as her debut single Do It Like A Dude, she's never hidden her bisexuality.
Sappho
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several species of brilliant South American humming birds of the genus Sappho, having very bright-colored and deeply forked tails; -- called also firetail.
Example Sentences:
(1) Do I expect them to appreciate the sexually terroristic satires of Sade, or the erogenous verse of Sappho and Catullus, or Nicholson Baker's comical romp Vox?
(2) Among other legends, the lovelorn poet Sappho is said to have ended her life here.
(3) Lesbos is one of the biggest of all the Greek islands, and a long visit and exploration will reveal why it is still beloved by artists, historians and modern Sapphos .
(4) The task is complicated by Donne's penchant for flouting literary and social convention as he successively overturns Ovid's influential portrayal of Sappho as an aging voluptuary reclaimed for heterosexuality, the virulent homophobia of Renaissance humanists, and the coy idealizations and transient evocation given to lesbian affectivity by the very few Renaissance writers (including Shakespeare) who touched on the subject at all.
(5) Those taking part were: Jackie Forster, Co-editor of Sappho; lesbian feminist magazine; Carola Haigh, General Practitioner, London; Ian Kennedy, Barrister and Lecturer in Law, Kings College, London; Anthony Parsons, Gynaecology Department, Kings College Hospital, London; Jennifer Pietroni, General Practitioner, London; Gordon Price, Department of Child & Family Psychiatry, Kings College Hospital, London; Rose Robertson, from Parents Enquiry, a counselling organisation for families where there is an incidence of Homosexuality and where it is causing stress.
(6) Her narrator Patroclus, she has said, sees the world "more like Sappho and Catullus than Homer"; he is a lover, not a fighter, swept up in the war because he is inseparable from Achilles.
(7) While many of Twombly's works have classical and literary associations – titles such as the School of Athens and inscribed lines by Sappho, Mallarmé, Keats or Catullus – not all of his oeuvre is so ethereal.