feminines

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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

The nouns belonging here are chiefly masculines and feminines.

From Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary by Smith, C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso)

"There are no feminines or diminutives of those words, my dear."

From Life at High Tide by Alden, Henry Mills

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 Bywater, Ingram

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 Brown, Goold