fair sex
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The book American and Other Drinks touts the ladies’ blush as a "favourite drink among the fair sex," neglecting to cite its popularity with aspiring hyperglycemics.
From Slate ● Jan. 21, 2013
In my day, however, the Great Three-Hundred-a-Year Marriage-Question was not yet broached, and gentlemen did not complainingly publish their rejections at the hands of the fair sex in the "Times" newspaper.
From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life by James Payn
More than once he saw Lucie Ledanois called out, among others of the fair sex, as a dancing partner for some member of the Krewe.
From The Mardi Gras Mystery by H. (Henry) Bedford-Jones
My turn for study, literary talent, grave demeanour, and seriousness of character made far less impression on the fair sex than my successes on the stage and the pallone-ground.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi
Whatever Frenchman would care to go to a land where he needs must be sufficiently indifferent to the fair sex to smear himself with butter!
From West African studies by Mary Henrietta Kingsley
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