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

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)

The interior of the church was dim and crowded with feminines, and I could only hear flutters and rustlings, together with a subdued mumble at the remoter end—which I ascertained to be the ceremony.

From Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. by Anstey, F.

They have heretofore seemed clean, but now you would not touch them, no, not even to put them in the soiled-clothes basket, let your feminines rave as they may.

From The Mountains by White, Stewart Edward

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