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fair sex
fair sex n the fair sex women collectively fair′ sex`
n. usage: This term, though rarely used today, is sometimes perceived as patronizing.—n. Older Use: Sometimes Offensive. women collectively. [1680–90]Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | fair sex - women as a class; "it's an insult to American womanhood"; "woman is the glory of creation"; "the fair sex gathered on the veranda"womanhood, womansocial class, socio-economic class, stratum, class - people having the same social, economic, or educational status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class"womankind - women as distinguished from men |
Translationsfair sex
the fair(er) sexFemales. The term has come to be considered inappropriate due to its emphasis on the physical appearance of women and girls. Did he just say "members of the fairer sex"? I feel like I'm in a Victorian novel.See also: sexfair sexGirls or women, as in Many women would object to being called the fair sex nowadays. This euphemism uses fair in the sense of "physically beautiful" and is probably dying out. [Mid-1600s] See also: fair, sexfair sex, theFemales in general. This cliché, which is rapidly dying out, is a direct translation of the French le beau sexe, a phrase popularized by the English journalists Joseph Addison and Richard Steele (“That sex which is therefore called fair,” The Spectator, 1712). It was already a cliché by the time Arthur Conan Doyle (The Second Stain, 1905) put it in Sherlock Holmes’s mouth: “Now Watson, the fair sex is your department.”See also: fairEncyclopediaSeefairFinancialSeeFairfair sex
Synonyms for fair sexnoun women as a classSynonymsRelated Words- social class
- socio-economic class
- stratum
- class
- womankind
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