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 ā Feb. 25, 2016
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 F. Anstey
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 Benjamin Franklin Schappelle
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 sleeping.
From Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time by James R. Gilmore
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
