English edit

Etymology edit

From tribade.

Noun edit

tribady (countable and uncountable, plural tribadies)

  1. (uncountable) Lesbianism; tribadism.
    • 1988, David F Greenberg, The Construction of Homosexuality, Chicago, published 1990, page 315:
      The law notwithstanding, memoirs show the atmosphere of the French court of the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries to have been irreligious, with male homosexuality and tribady open and well-represented.
  2. (countable) A lesbian.