feminine
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There is Glover, embracing a feminine aesthetic while cooking over open flames.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
In another, he criticizes his young female aide’s outfit as not feminine enough and makes her change.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
The enduring image of Sand as a dashing figure in trousers threatens to undermine some of her traditionally feminine qualities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
In her studio, surrounded by shelves of porcelain figures she recovered from Altadena and refired, she fashions whimsical sculptures imitating feminine figures and feline forms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
He had a chiseled face with lips and eyes that were somewhere between feminine beautiful and masculine handsome.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
Although made with contemporary means, Hill’s smeary feminines recall the sharper-edged experiments of Cubists and Futurists.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2016
Masculine nouns make regular feminines, when their termination is changed to ess: as, hunter, huntress; prince, princess; lion, lioness.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
A vanguard have proceeded in advance to take possession of the deserted house; while Aunt Rachel, with her cortŠge of feminines, is fussing over "young missus."
From Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
All ending in the invariably long vowels, H and O, and in A among the vowels that may be long, are feminines.
From Aristotle on the art of poetry by Ingram Bywater
A stir in the adjoining bed soon warned me that the other feminines were preparing to follow her example; so, turning my face to the wall, I feigned to be asleep.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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