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

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

Masculine nouns make regular feminines, when their termination is changed to ess: as, hunter, huntress; prince, princess; lion, lioness.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

All ending in the invariably long vowels, H and O, and in A among the vowels that may be long, are feminines.

From Aristotle on the art of poetry by Bywater, Ingram

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