feminines

Example Sentences

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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

Gender is indicated except in the case of masculine nouns ending in '-o' and feminines ending in '-a.'

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

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

You are after results; and if you get them, do not mind the feminines of your household lifting the hands of horror over the unorthodox means.

From The Mountains by White, Stewart Edward

Under that standard march in the U.S. at least 20,000,000 feminines, and—horrible to relate—gal children are on the increase.

From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 29, October 15, 1870 by Various