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

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

From Life at High Tide by Alden, Henry Mills

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)

The dinner bell will ring in a few moments," Helen declared presently, "and we must both make ourselves fit to be seen, not of men, but between thirty and forty feminines.

From Helen Grant's Schooldays by Douglas, Amanda M.

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