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 Benjamin Homer Hall
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 Goold Brown
A stir in the adjoining bed soon warned me that the other feminines were preparing to follow her example; so, turning my face to the wall, I feigned to be asleep.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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 Ingram Bywater
