sapphic in English

adjective
1
of or relating to lesbians or lesbianism.
sapphic lovers
2
of or relating to Sappho or her poetry.
In other words, the Sapphic lyric refuses the chronological unfolding of time and instead endlessly repeats the activity of looking back to the past even as it predicts its own future rewriting.
noun
1
verse in a meter associated with Sappho.
Meanwhile soldier poets wrote odes and sapphics based on dead forms borrowed from the Greeks while laying plans to translate the Aeneid.
adjective

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1. The Alcaic stanza and the Sapphic stanza named for Alcaeus' contemporary, Sappho, are …

2. The Alcaic stanza and the Sapphic stanza named for Alcaeus' contemporary, Sappho, are two important forms of …

3. The Alcaic stanza and the Sapphic stanza named for Alcaeus' contemporary, Sappho, are two important forms of Classical poetry.

4. [1] The Alcaic stanza and the Sapphic stanza named for Alcaeus' contemporary, Sappho, are two important forms of Classical poetry.

5. Playing a Type A-plus-plus lawyer who's finally learning to acknowledge her sapphic side, she is brilliantly funny and Adorably vulnerable.: As the showgirl, she was Adorably bold, and