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- Women collectively.
–noun
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- Women as a class.
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- His juvenile attachments to the fair sex were, however, very transient; and it is certain that he formed no criminal connection whatsoever.—Life Of Johnson
- That they maintain the reputation of the Academy for gallantry and devotion to the fair sex is evidenced by the presence of numbers of beautiful young ladies in their camp after dress parade every evening.—Henry Ossian Flipper The Colored Cadet at West Point
- There were raised benches on both sides of this room with four steps, where the fair sex chiefly prevailed.—Joseph Haydn
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