tribady

English

Etymology

From tribade.

Noun

tribady (countable and uncountable, plural tribadies)

1. (uncountable) Lesbianism; tribadism.
   • 1988, David F Greenberg, The Construction of Homosexuality, Chicago, published 1990, page 315:

     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.

2. (countable) A lesbian.