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ber•dache n.

Anthropology(in some American Indian tribes) a man who adopts the dress and social roles traditionally assigned to women.

Persian bardah
Arabic bardaj slave
South Italian bardascia
North American French; French bardache passive partner in sodomy, boy prostitute
1800–10

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