Sapphic, it's a word.
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
United States
March 19, 2019 6:54pm CST
Yep, It's a word. I don't believe I've heard it before, it's rather an interesting one. I was reading a book just now [The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters] and that word was used. It literally means Lesbians or pertaining to Lesbianism.
One of the main characters had just confessed that she had had an affair with a woman. This is set in 1920's England. A different time. A different place.
I'm going to hazard a guess and say that the two people in this scene are going to end up having an attraction for one another.
So, there's your word of the day. Sapphic
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Mar 19
Yes, the definition also came up with Sappho, whom I'm not sure I had ever heard of before. It's odd what the word filter does and does not pick up, isn't it?
We were taught greek mythology in school, but not much beyond that.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
21 Mar 19
@LadyDuck That is probably why an ancient term for lesbianism was derived from her name.
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@LadyDuck (502343)
• Italy
21 Mar 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum Sappho was a prolific poet, an incredibly "modern woman" for those times. She is now considered a symbol of female homosexuality.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Mar 19
It does have a culinary quality to it, doesn't it?
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Mar 19
Neither have I, though it does have a familiar ring to it.
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@Poppylicious (11134)
• United Kingdom
20 Mar 19
This word seems familiar. I love old words and phrases.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Mar 19
I love them too. I used to subscribe to A Word a Day newsletter just to see if there were words that I did not know. Of course, I stopped opening the emails and ultimately unsubscribed.
So many words that people don't use anymore.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Mar 19
@Poppylicious Pinterest is a vortex I don't often venture to. I'd be on it for hours and hours. I've seen nice quotes there before though.
@Poppylicious (11134)
• United Kingdom
20 Mar 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum I have a board on Pinterest dedicated to wordage. Lots of quotes, but also lots of old words that aren't used anymore. Some are so much fun.
@SophiaMorros (5044)
• Belews Creek, North Carolina
20 Mar 19
I think I've run into that word before but I had forgotten it's meaning. Thanks for the refresher!
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Mar 19
I don't know that I have, though it has a familiar ring to it.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Mar 19
I don't think it's really used at all anymore. This book's setting is the 1920's, and perhaps that word would have been more main stream then.
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@RasmaSandra (97954)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
20 Mar 19
Very interesting. Never heard this word before. As a noun is also means
verse in a meter associated with Sappho.
Sappho was a Greek lyric poet
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Mar 19
Yes, I saw that but decided to omit it from my discussion. I can vaguely remember hearing something about Sappho in school, though I don't think we were taught much more than the more well known Greek Gods and Goddesses.
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