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How to pronounce catamite in English?

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Type of boy, male child

Examples of catamite

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Yet his appeal was not the girlish winsomeness of a catamite.
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Free men, however, frequently took the active role with a young slave, known as a catamite or puer delicatus.
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Lucius is eventually sold to a catamite priest.
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She didn't like women, and it shows-especially in this, her masterpiece about the Roman emperor Hadrian and his beloved catamite Antinous.
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More examples
  • A boy who submits to a sexual relationship with a man
  • Catamites, in ancient Greece, were passive male lovers, usually younger, that some men kept. It has the same connotations as a Berdache or a Ladyboy in other cultures.
  • The junior partner in a paederastic relationship
  • (catamitism) The practice of keeping catamites; The essence of being a catamite
  • A boy kept by a pederast