sapphic vice

English

Noun

sapphic vice (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Lesbianism.
    • 1912, The modern Parisienne, London: William Heinemann, translation of Études de sociologie féminine : Parisiennes de ce temps et leurs divers milieux, états et conditions by Octave Uzanne, page 196:
      They go out in the evening and must be back by noon on the following day at latest. Very few of them have lovers. They are satiated with men. But doctors who are competent to speak say that sapphic vice is widespread among them.

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