Citations:sapphic

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English citations of sapphic

noun (verse form)[edit]

  • 2019 Fall, University of Chicago Press Fall 2019 Seasonal Catalog, page 251:
    Honor Moore's first collection of [...] poems include[s] sapphics, sestinas, and even a hendecasyllabic arrangement, showing Moore's power to breathe new life into traditional forms.

noun (type of person)[edit]

  • 1823, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Books Printed in the 15. Century Lately Forming Part of the Library of the Duke Di Cassano Serra and Now the Property of George John Earl Spencer:
    On the reverse of c iiij, the play ends, and some Latin sapphics, by Fossa, begin thus: [...]