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To: G Larry

Lesbos-slang for lesbians? Plural


13 posted on 10/11/2018 8:33:04 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos<

Lesbos is a Greek island. (Google is your friend)(well....figuratively)

16 posted on 10/11/2018 8:40:30 PM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Woman poet Sappho was from Lesbos Hence the source of the term for homosexual women as she was allegedly overly fond of her own sex.


21 posted on 10/11/2018 8:51:18 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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