sapphire

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Playing on the latter’s name, this was the doing of Magic Mascs, an all-masc lesbian and translesbian revue, by sapphics for sapphics.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

Sapphic Pride: For the third year in a row, we’ll be celebrating pride with insane performances, games, music and more at Seattle’s event for queer women and sapphics.

From Seattle Times • May 31, 2024

His work extended well beyond that of sonnets and sapphics, to include acclaimed translations of the French playwrights Molière and Racine and the poets Baudelaire and Brodsky.

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2017

The success of Horace may be judged by comparing his stanzas with the sapphics of Catullus on the one hand, and the alcaics of Statius on the other.

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas

There is a foreign grace and a little technical difficulty overcome in the English ballade and villanelle, as in the Horatian sapphics and alcaics. 

From Letters on Literature by Lang, Andrew