masculine
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For generations, body hair was synonymous with masculine adulthood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
The author’s fondness for masculine attire and habits—she enjoyed smoking cigars—has never ceased to generate ticklish speculation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Transmasculine refers to people who are born female but identify as more masculine, whether partially or fully.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
Dwayne Johnson’s performance in “The Smashing Machine,” for all the film’s flaws, cleverly reconciled the dissonance between the outward images of masculine power and internal feelings of self-loathing.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
It was unpretentious, masculine, decorated with a nautical motif, and had a constant smell of fried bacon about it.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
A-h! how popular that will be with poor masculines!
From Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio by A. G. Riddle
We masculines took ourselves off for a while.
From Kitty's Conquest by Charles King
About the end of the 11th century feminines not ending in e = ǝ take, by analogy of the masculines, s in the nom. sing., thus distinguishing nom. flors from acc. flor.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various
Nouns signifying males are masculines; as, fear a man, righ a king, sagart a priest, tarbh a bull, cu a dog.
From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Alexander Stewart
The nominative of masculines of the first declension in Α belongs to the Latin, Homeric, Dryopian, Thessalian, Bœotian, Macedonian, and Elean dialects.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
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