tribade
See also: tríbade
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle French tribade, and its source, Latin tribad-, from Koine Greek τριβάς (tribás), from Ancient Greek τρίβω (tríbō, “to rub”).
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editNoun
edittribade (plural tribades)
- A woman who engages in sexual activity with another woman; a lesbian. [from 16th c.]
- a. 1637, Ben Jonson, Præludium:
- Go, cramp dull Mars, light Venus, when he snorts, / Or with thy tribade trine invent new sports; / Thou, nor thy looseness with my making sorts.
- 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex[1], 3rd edition, volume 2:
- A century later, however, homosexuality among English women seems to have been regarded by the French as common, and Bacchaumont […] added: "Her taste for women will there find attractive satisfaction, for though Paris furnishes many tribades it is said that London is herein superior."
- 1977, Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve:
- I roused Zero’s suspicions because I began to behave too much like a woman and he started to watch me warily for signs of the tribade. If he had spied any, or surprised me fingering any of his girls, he would have shot me.
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editDutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French tribade, from Latin tribas, from Ancient Greek τριβάς (tribás).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittribade f (plural tribades)
- (historical, originally derogatory) lesbian, tribade
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editFrench
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Noun
edittribade f (plural tribades)
Further reading
edit- “tribade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
editNoun
edittribade
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