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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1530-1605
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Feminine, Femenene, n. Also: femenein, famenene. [ME. femynyng (c 1440, once), f. Feminine,a.] Womankind.(a) c1530-40 Stewart Bann. MS. 216 a/8.
My pen I will apply … Off femenene the fame to fortefie 1537 Lynd. Depl. Magd. 16.
O dreidfull Dragoun! … Quhilk did nocht spair, of feminine the flour a1568 Scott xvi. 25.
For all the fathfull lufe is gone Of femenene a1585 Maitland Quarto MS xl. 2.
O blissed bird brichtest of all, O flour of femenein a1585 Ib. xlviii. 106.
As goddes of all feminine, Of men to be adoird c1590 Fowler I. 133/200.
The fairest face of feminine, yea, of the world the chose(b) a1568 Scott xxvi. 69.
That famenene ar of this figour Quhilk clippit is antiphratis a1605 Montg. Misc. P. lii. 25.
The facultie of famenene is so, Vnto thair freind to be his fo
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