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The Third Sex choose

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[US] A. Smith Third Sex 57: [of a lesbian] ‘You see, I thought you were just another broad, strictly out for kicks.’ ‘I was,’ Joan said. She was not about to deny she had been a broad for the last six months [Simes:DLSS].
at broad, n.2
[US] A. Smith Third Sex 27: She was dressed like a boy with taste, not that awful, truck-driver look of the butches at the Dairy, nor the strange, almost gay-boy look of the femmes [Simes:DLSS].
at butch, n.1
[US] A. Smith Third Sex 148: ‘It might have been for Jay and me because we love to camp it up, but you girls are always more serious than we are’ [Simes:DLSS].
at camp about (v.) under camp, v.2
[US] A. Smith Third Sex 33: ‘Say, what’s the bit? I thought you were femme, but now you’re in slacks’ [Simes:DLSS].
at femme, adj.
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