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Definition of Tribade

1. Noun. A female homosexual.

Definition of Tribade

1. Noun. a lesbian ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tribade

1. a lesbian [n -S] : TRIBADIC [adj] - See also: lesbian

Medical Definition of Tribade

1. A lesbian, especially one who obtains sexual pleasure by rubbing her external genitalia against those of another woman. Origin: G. Tribo, to rub (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tribade

Literary usage of Tribade

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs of the Courts of Berlin and St. Petersburg by Honoré-Gabriel de Riquetti Mirabeau (1910)
"THE most distressing incident possible has just happened to me. It is a very extraordinary story. Madame de F the famous tribade, coming from the waters of ..."

2. Pictures of Travel by Heinrich Heine (1856)
"... Pythagorean character ; he is a patine in his poems ; he is a woman, and one, at that, who has a passion for her own sex—in fact, a masculine tribade. ..."

3. Principles of chemical philosophy by Josiah Parsons Cooke (1874)
"... is found in the fact that whereas a monobasic acid can only form one salt with a univalent radical, a dibasic acid can form two, and a tribade three. ..."

4. Psychopathia Sexualis, with Especial Reference to the Antipathic Sexual by Richard Krafft-Ebing (1922)
"... he styles as "monsters of masculine gender in opposition to which the passive tribade is as perfect a woman as the active pa;dicator is a perfect man". ..."

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