feminine
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Their banter with each other before singing, not to mention their duet itself, embraced the liveliness and feminine feminist-ness of that song.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
In the east and some other parts, as well as among Hindus in Bangladesh, the festival sees devotees worshipping the divine feminine power with Durga Puja celebrations.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Cave’s joke, of course, is that “Every lead girl in a period drama” is no freer from the demands of feminine beauty than the women she’s meant to stand apart from.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
There is Glover, embracing a feminine aesthetic while cooking over open flames.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
Even her voice, usually high-pitched and feminine, had deepened and curdled.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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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
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
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
The masculines far outnumber the feminines, and the neuters contain only ēage, eye and ēare, ear.
From Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary by C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso) Smith
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