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

How you two feminines must have suffered—one from hopeless love— and the other from helpless sympathy.

From Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks by Pidgin, Charles Felton

Under that standard march in the U.S. at least 20,000,000 feminines, and—horrible to relate—gal children are on the increase.

From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 29, October 15, 1870 by Various

In feminines the final vowel '-a' is as a rule weakened to 'e', e.g.,

From The German Element in Brazil Colonies and Dialect by Schappelle, Benjamin Franklin

"There are no feminines or diminutives of those words, my dear."

From Life at High Tide by Alden, Henry Mills