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

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

The masculines far outnumber the feminines, and the neuters contain only ēage, eye and ēare, ear.

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

Gender is indicated except in the case of masculine nouns ending in '-o' and feminines ending in '-a.'

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

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.