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Tribade vs Tribady - What's the difference?

tribade | tribady |

As nouns the difference between tribade and tribady

is that tribade is lesbian while tribady is lesbianism; tribadism.

tribade

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a lesbian
  • :* 1977': I roused Zero’s suspicions because I began to behave too much like a woman and he started to watch me warily for signs of the '''tribade . If he had spied any, or surprised me fingering any of his girls, he would have shot me. — Angela Carter, ''The Passion of New Eve

    • Related terms

    * tribadism ----

    tribady

    English

    Noun

  • Lesbianism; tribadism.
  • *1988': The law notwithstanding, memoirs show the atmosphere of the French court of the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries to have been irreligious, with male homosexuality and '''tribady open and well-represented. — David F Greenberg, ''The Construction of Homosexuality (Chicago 1990, p. 315)