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[–]TovasshiDefinitely a house plant 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Berdache (bardache) was a word used by the French colonists. It means passive homosexual. It was often used to describe boy prostitutes or boy lover of a pederast.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/bardache#:~:text=Noun,obsolete)%20passive%20homosexual%20Synonym%3A%20giton

[–]JulienMayfair[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, but the word is thought by linguists to have been imported into French via French contact with Arabic speakers.