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But then there are her fragile-looking hands gathered effeminately, self-protectively at her heart.

From The Guardian • May 26, 2012

When, says Reynolds, mustachioed Czar Peter the Great rebuked a Western ambassador for being effeminately clean-shaven, the envoy pertly retorted: "Had my royal master measured wisdom by the beard, he would have sent a goat."

From Time Magazine Archive

Enter Sardanapalus effeminately dressed, his Head crowned with Flowers, and his Robe negligently flowing, attended by a Train of Women and young Slaves.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

He lived effeminately, wearing at times the dress of a woman, and spinning wool with the handmaidens of Omphale, while the queen wore his lion's skin.

From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Bulfinch, Thomas

And albeit she, good cateress, pours out her blessings upon us in abundance, yet she suffers not her gifts to be received effeminately, but inures her pensioners to suffer glady summer's heat and winter's cold.

From The Economist by Dakyns, Henry Graham