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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

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 asleep.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

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 Anstey, F.

You are after results; and if you get them, do not mind the feminines of your household lifting the hands of horror over the unorthodox means.

From The Mountains by White, Stewart Edward

In feminines the final vowel '-a' is as a rule weakened to 'e', e.g.,

From The German Element in Brazil Colonies and Dialect by Schappelle, Benjamin Franklin