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

"There are no feminines or diminutives of those words, my dear."

From Life at High Tide by Alden, Henry Mills

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

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

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