"lesbian chic" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: lesbian chics [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} lesbian chic (plural lesbian chics)
  1. (slang, dated) A feminine lesbian. Tags: dated, slang Categories (topical): Female people, LGBTQ Synonyms: lipstick lesbian, designer dyke, femme
    Sense id: en-lesbian_chic-en-noun-GyvhlzPo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "text": "Critics attacked what they perceived to be the key feature of lesbian chic, i.e., 'cheque-writing dykes who [look] suspiciously like the average Tory shithead's daughter' (Solanas 1993, p. 5).",
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          "ref": "2020 September 14, Kate Farhall, Sex, Feminism and Lesbian Desire in Women’s Magazines, Routledge, →ISBN, page 2007:",
          "text": "[…] the fever surrounding lesbian chic in the 1990s belied \"a larger cultural anxiety about the dangers of the lesbian body, exemplified by the simultaneous embrace of the 'new femme' as cutting edge and the denunciation of real-life lesbians as perverse and depraved\".",
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