"lesbian rule" meaning in English

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        {
          "ref": "1993, Wolfgang Görtschacher, “Little Magazines Profiles: The Little Magazines in Great Britain, 1939-1993”, in Poetry, Salzburg",
          "text": "It has to be, shall we say, you have to work with a lesbian rule, I suppose! You know what a lesbian rule is? It's a rule that you can bend.",
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        {
          "ref": "1998, Continuing Medical Education Syllabus and Scientific Proceedings in Summary Form: Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association",
          "text": "Using slides of photographs from advertising and art, the authors discuss the importance of using \"lesbian rules\" (a term deriving from a mason's tool that allows measuring flexibility) to understand the dimensions of sexual expression […]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Maggie Magee, Diana C. Miller, Lesbian Lives: Psychoanalytic Narratives Old and New, Routledge",
          "text": "In an attempt to build a few intertextual bridges, we use images from lesbian literature to illustrate principles we find most useful in thinking psychoanalytically about homosexuality. We call these principles lesbian rules. A lesbian rule was originally a mason's rule made of lead […] Thus, figuratively, it became, […] \"a principle allowing flexibility.\" […] Clinical psychoanalysis uses many such lesbian rules.",
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        "Alternative letter-case form of Lesbian rule"
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        "(rare, especially in the context of sexuality) Alternative letter-case form of Lesbian rule"
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  "word": "lesbian rule"
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          "ref": "1993, Wolfgang Görtschacher, “Little Magazines Profiles: The Little Magazines in Great Britain, 1939-1993”, in Poetry, Salzburg",
          "text": "It has to be, shall we say, you have to work with a lesbian rule, I suppose! You know what a lesbian rule is? It's a rule that you can bend.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Continuing Medical Education Syllabus and Scientific Proceedings in Summary Form: Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association",
          "text": "Using slides of photographs from advertising and art, the authors discuss the importance of using \"lesbian rules\" (a term deriving from a mason's tool that allows measuring flexibility) to understand the dimensions of sexual expression […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Maggie Magee, Diana C. Miller, Lesbian Lives: Psychoanalytic Narratives Old and New, Routledge",
          "text": "In an attempt to build a few intertextual bridges, we use images from lesbian literature to illustrate principles we find most useful in thinking psychoanalytically about homosexuality. We call these principles lesbian rules. A lesbian rule was originally a mason's rule made of lead […] Thus, figuratively, it became, […] \"a principle allowing flexibility.\" […] Clinical psychoanalysis uses many such lesbian rules.",
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        "(rare, especially in the context of sexuality) Alternative letter-case form of Lesbian rule"
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