SAPPHIC

I. adjective Date: 1501 of or relating to the Greek lyric poet Sappho, of, relating to, or consisting of a 4-line strophe made up of chiefly trochaic and dactylic feet, lesbian 2, II. noun Date: 1586 a verse having the metrical pattern of one of the first three lines of a ~ strophe, a ~ strophe