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
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
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
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
All ending in the invariably long vowels, H and O, and in A among the vowels that may be long, are feminines.
From Aristotle on the art of poetry by Ingram Bywater
