feminines

Example Sentences

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Although made with contemporary means, Hill’s smeary feminines recall the sharper-edged experiments of Cubists and Futurists.

From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2016

Was it because Heine lived for years in Paris on the adulation of advanced feminines?

From The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe by Various

Of course we feminines, with nerves somewhat shattered from the events of the past week, were greatly alarmed.

From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith

Getting clear, at length, of this crowd of feminines, "presto" was the word, and away we bowled along one of the most beautiful roads I have ever seen.

From Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas by Macaulay, W. Hastings

All the other oldest relatives gradually dropt away, and 'that' came to be applied also to plural antecedents, and to masculines and feminines.

From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Osmun, Thomas Embly