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les·bo

 (lĕz′bō) Offensive Slang
n. pl. les·boes
Used as a disparaging term for a lesbian.
[lesb(ian) + -o.]
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lesbo

(ˈlɛzbəʊ)
n, pl -bos
a lesbian
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lesbo

n pl <-bos> (inf pej) → Lesbe f (inf)
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But Achilles slept in an inner room, and beside him the daughter of Phorbas lovely Diomede, whom he had carried off from Lesbos. Patroclus lay on the other side of the room, and with him fair Iphis whom Achilles had given him when he took Scyros the city of Enyeus.
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Later on Menelaus joined us at Lesbos, and found us making up our minds about our course--for we did not know whether to go outside Chios by the island of Psyra, keeping this to our left, or inside Chios, over against the stormy headland of Mimas.
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ATHENS, June 11, 2019, SPA --Two children, four women and a man drowned when a boat carrying them overturned off the Greek island of Lesbos on Tuesday, the coast guard said, the deadliest incident this year involving migrants trying to reach Greece, Reuters reported.
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Among the flimsy orange jackets in the vast tip are splintered dinghies and fishing boats A-dumped here by the Lesbos authorities.
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