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

How you two feminines must have suffered—one from hopeless love— and the other from helpless sympathy.

From Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks by Pidgin, Charles Felton

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

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.

In feminines the final vowel '-a' is as a rule weakened to 'e', e.g.,

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