Lesbianism is also called sapphism or female homosexuality. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]]
A febrile little tale of student-teacher sapphism at a posh French boarding school in the 1880s. From Wordnik.com. [Walk-In Closet] Reference
Viewers responded with fast and unrelenting obsession, as videos of Hayden's superheroic dip into sapphism quickly flooded the Internet. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Skin: When Women Kiss: From TV Stunts to Mainstream Reality] Reference
Elfenbein's study explores the association of sapphism with genius in Anne Damer's life, in Anne Bannerman's poetry, and in Coleridge's self-fashioning through. From Wordnik.com. ['Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes] Reference
If Sapphic love lurks in eroticized irregularities, as Lanser demonstrates, I am also struck by the association between sapphism during the period and certain marked enthusiasms, as in the gardening of the Ladies of. From Wordnik.com. [Romantic Loves: A Response to _Historicizing Romantic Sexuality_] Reference
I might also instance two sisters of the gardener caste, both widows, who 'lived apart' and indulged in simultaneous sapphism. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion] Reference
This lady said that she began masturbation at an early age, 'just like all other women,' and that sapphism came after the age of puberty. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion] Reference
I was called in to treat the widow of a wealthy Mohammedan; I had occasion to examine the pudenda, and found what Martineau would have called the indelible stigmata of early masturbation and later sapphism. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion] Reference
1790s when Marie Antoinette's putative sapphism helped to pave her journey to the guillotine (409-35). From Wordnik.com. ['Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes] Reference
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