daughter of Sappho

English

Noun

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.