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

You are after results; and if you get them, do not mind the feminines of your household lifting the hands of horror over the unorthodox means.

From The Mountains by White, Stewart Edward

Write the feminines corresponding to the following nouns: earl, friar, stag, lord, duke, marquis, hero, executor, nephew, heir, actor, enchanter, hunter, prince, traitor, lion, arbiter, tutor, songster, abbot, master, uncle, widower, son, landgrave.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

He sprees, is caught, rusticates, returns next year, mingles with feminines, and is consequently degraded into the spooney Junior.

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer