feminines

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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

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

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

The masculines end in -a, the feminines and neuters in -e.

From Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary by Smith, C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso)