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ephebic

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e·phe·bic (-fbk)
adj.
Of or relating to the period of puberty or adolescence.


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In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century France, images of ephebic or feminized men served to repudiate "a previous model of masculinity that was not only experienced as oppressive, but .
As in England, women were not allowed on the Italian stage in the early modern period and boy actors were called upon to play the parts of ephebic, adolescent heroines poised between childhood and the first stirrings of sexual instincts.
resembles Streptelasma Hall, 1847 both in morphology and ontogeny but clearly differs in having a septofossula in the late ephebic stage.
 
 
 
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