feminine

“By choice, she did not emphasize her feminine qualities,” he wrote, adding that she was secretive and quarrelsome.

Recently she considered tropes associated with the Pinot Noir grape, described with surprising frequency as “sensitive” and “feminine”—words many wine writers have tossed around with impunity.

A masculine girl or feminine boy may now be labeled as “trans.”

They then quick-change into fabulous metallic gowns and, with the help of LED panels and lighting cues, the bedroom transforms into a fashion runway of scintillating secretaries, singing and dancing in feminine revelry.

After all, at the very start of her career in Hollywood, once she had settled in Los Angeles, Lansbury had to deal with specific notions of feminine beauty.