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

Homer's praises of beauty are reserved for the feminines, especially his favourite Helen.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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

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

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