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

A vanguard have proceeded in advance to take possession of the deserted house; while Aunt Rachel, with her cortŠge of feminines, is fussing over "young missus."

From Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter by Adams, F. Colburn (Francis Colburn)

Was it because Heine lived for years in Paris on the adulation of advanced feminines?

From The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe by Various

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.

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 Smith, C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso)