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feminie arch.|ˈfɛmɪnɪ|
Also 5 femyne, femynye, 6 femynie.
[a. OF. feminie, f. L. fēmina woman.]
Womankind; a ‘set’ of women, esp. the Amazons; also the country of the Amazons.
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 8 He conquered all the regne of Feminie. c1400Destr. Troy 6669 The qwene of femyne þat freike so faithfully louyt. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. xcix. (1869) 111, I wot neuere whether i be in femynye, ther wommen hauen the lordship. 1561Schole-house of Women 9 in Hazl. E.P.P. IV. 106 A foole of late contrived a boke, And all in praise of the femynie. 1692Coles, Feminie, the women's country. 1822Byron Werner iv. i, You bid me..look into The eyes of feminie. 1834Fraser's Mag. IX. 639 The dingy feminie who cry their brooms. 1836M. J. Chapman ibid. XIV. 22 At the good deeds of feminie let no man..Sneer idly. |