feminine
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She also recalled a conversation with open-fire chef Francis Mallmann, who described fire as feminine.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
There is Glover, embracing a feminine aesthetic while cooking over open flames.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
The gags are counterbalanced by generous helpings of schmaltz, with much talk of the power of the feminine and how sisterhood defeats all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
“I don’t think any of these criticisms of being feminine, insecure and anxious can be attributed to Ernest Hemingway, who was a great cat lover,” Vocelle says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Mr. McKee was a pale feminine man from the flat below.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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 Charles Felton Pidgin
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 Amanda M. Douglas
The masculines end in -a, the feminines and neuters in -e.
From Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary by C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso) Smith
Getting clear, at length, of this crowd of feminines, "presto" was the word, and away we bowled along one of the most beautiful roads I have ever seen.
From Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas by W. Hastings Macaulay
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