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Lesbian adj.

Of or pertaining to the island anciently called Lesbos, now Mitylene, in the Grecian Archipelago.

Amatory; erotic; in allusion to the reputed sensuality of the Lesbian people and literature; as, Lesbian novels. (archaic)

Homosexual; applied to female homosexuals.

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Etymology of 'Lesbian'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the Maeander and, after being thrown on land, dedicated to Apollo, the god of song. Comp. Lyc. 58-63, where the Muses and misfortune are similarly associated by a reference to Orpheus, whose 'gory visage' and lyre were carried "down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore." Further, the Maeander is associated with the sorrows of the maiden Byblis, who seeks her lost brother Caunus (called by Ovid Maeandrius juvenis). [Since the above was written, Prof. J. W. Hales has given the following explanation ...

— Milton's Comus • John Milton

... ivy crown Exalts above a mortal fate; Me shady Groves, light Nymphs, and Satyrs brown, Raise o'er the Crowd, in sweet sequester'd state. And there is heard the Lesbian lute, And there Euterpe's Dorian flute; But, should'st thou rank me with the LYRIC CHOIR, To GLORY's starry heights thy Poet ...

— Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace • Anna Seward

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