A
metrical form invented by
Sappho, the greatest of all
poets. Also: relating to a form of quite nice
naughtiness between
consenting ladies, of which this poet Sappho of the isle of
Lesbos was the most famous example in ancient times (her and her eager pupils, devotees of the love goddess
Aphrodite), and therefore called both
sapphism and
lesbianism in her honour. It is sometimes doubted whether she was a small-l
lesbian, but usually by people with an
agenda. The evidence of her poems is not perhaps as physically
explicit as the average
Literotica story, but seems quite clear anyway.
In web searches, if you're actually looking for information about lesbians, the word 'sapphic' slightly improves your chances, since most hits for 'lesbian' actually mean 'big-haired prostitute with tongue pointing near naughty bits of another such a one'.