epicene

What's the meaning of this; and what, may I ask, is the intention of this—this epicene attire?

He looked away, for that epicene tenderness of hers was too harrowing.

Sentiment is the ultima ratio feminarum, and of men whose natures are of the epicene gender.

But a liberal-minded public grew more and more in favor of epicene colleges.

He was a great contrast to the epicene bird-like creature who had lorded it over the civic fortunes of Valladolid.

The latest development of the impulses which animate the epicene sex has taken its expression in after-dinner oratory.

This seemed to him an odd way to look at things, and he boggled over a phrase about an "epicene lily."