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  • And there tended to be a similar sort of distinction — though perhaps less starkly delineated — between 3rd-dec. mulier, mulieris (“adult female human”) and 1st-dec. femina, feminae (“a lovely, curvy, nurturing, MILF-y Real Woman”).

    The Volokh Conspiracy » PC 2010

  • And there tended to be a similar sort of distinction — though perhaps less starkly delineated — between 3rd-dec. mulier, mulieris (“adult female human”) and 1st-dec. femina, feminae (“a lovely, curvy, nurturing, MILF-y Real Woman”).

    The Volokh Conspiracy » PC 2010

  • Sarge there were a couple of vocation possibilities i.e. feminae for you in attendance this morning.

    Archive 2008-06-29 papabear 2008

  • Viros nudos castae feminae nihil a statuis distare.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • _ 19, 4, 'Sed si prudentiam perfectissimae feminae novi, non patietur te nihil profuturo maerore consumi et exemplum tibi suum, cuius ego etiam spectator fui, narrabit.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • The old Roman digest interprets nature with philosophic accuracy when it describes marriage as "_Conjunctio maris et feminae et consortium omnis vitae, divini et humani juris communicatio_".

    Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles W. R. Washington Sullivan

  • The natural feminine odor -- _odor feminae_ -- is pleasant, attractive and needs no disguise.

    Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson

  • There was a parallel expression _principes feminae_: see Pliny

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Morrigan: the war-goddess of the ancient Irish, "_monstrum in feminae figura_" (pronounced _More-reegan_)

    The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge Unknown

  • Vos bonae senibus uiris cognitae bene feminae, collocate puellulam.

    Iunia weds with Manlius 1912

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