"Sapphic" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "'Very good,” he said, 'although I must confess that the older I get, the less I am able to enjoy the company of women – except of course our own dear Enid who is so notorious a Sapphic as to be virtually hors concours.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 March 17, Annalisa Millo, “A great year for lesbians”, in QSaltake, number 176, page 33",
          "text": "There are many of us (yes, even in Utah) who are more style-conscious, socially involved and culturally aware Sapphics than the common opinion dictates.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 Summer, Gretal M. (19), review of Her Royal Highness, by Rachel Hawkins in The Chuckanut Reader, page 71",
          "text": "Are you a fan of hate-to-love? Roommates? Royalty romances? Geology puns? Sapphics? Her Royal Highness has all of this and more. After Millie discovers her best friend turned maybe girlfriend kissing someone else, she decides to flee […]"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who is sapphic."
      ],
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        [
          "sapphic",
          "sapphic"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsæf.ɪk/",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æfɪk"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "word": "gay woman"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "Sapphick"
    }
  ],
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}