Things changed when Théophile Gautier made tribadism a fashionable feature of French decadence, and Baudelaire reminded the world that it all started on Lesbos.
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Tribadism
//ˈtɹɪbədɪz(ə)m//
Synonyms for "tribadism" (22 found)
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18 translations across 17 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- лесбийство noun (sexual practice)
Catalan
1 entries- tribadisme noun (sexual practice)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 磨豆腐 noun (sexual practice)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 磨豆腐 noun (sexual practice)
Dutch
1 entries- tribadisme noun (sexual practice)
Esperanto
1 entries- tribadismo noun (sexual practice)
Finnish
1 entries- tribadismi noun (sexual practice)
French
1 entries- tribadisme noun (sexual practice)
Galician
1 entries- tribadismo noun (sexual practice)
German
1 entries- Tribadie noun (sexual practice)
Greek
1 entries- πλακομούνι noun (sexual practice)
Italian
1 entries- tribadismo noun (sexual practice)
Japanese
1 entries- 貝合わせ noun (sexual practice)
Korean
2 entries- 가위치기 noun (sexual practice)
- 밴대질 noun (sexual practice)
Polish
1 entries- trybadyzm noun (sexual practice)
Portuguese
1 entries- tribadismo noun (sexual practice)
Spanish
1 entries- tribadismo noun (sexual practice)
Sample sentences
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The Lesbian is the analogue among women of Persian love among men, and this perversion takes place in two ways, either by friction of the two female bodies, known as tribadism, or by the tongue, designated as cunnilinguism.
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In Bali[…] homosexuality is almost as common among women as among men, though it is more secretly exercised; the methods of gratification adopted are either digital or lingual, or else by bringing the parts together (tribadism).
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