babes.

It was just inevitable, like a lot of things known in that rock-ribbed and fatalistic region -- as immutably decreed by heaven as foreordination and the damnation of unbaptized babes.

The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

One of the first times I came to Paris to see Monsieur (that's my other half), I put thought into my outfit, fretting that I wouldn't look good enough among the sexy, thin French babes.

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I know that there's a contingent of readers who find the latter three artists' work inferior because it looks old or isn't flashy enough or doesn't have enough "babes."

Top 100 Comic Book Runs #55-51 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

Where you are requested to observe that a specimen of Interpretation you think trifling, the Holy Ghost calls "solid food;" and yourselves, who in your own conceit represent the World's Manhood [480], He calls nepious, -- "babes." ....

Inspiration and Interpretation: Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford: With Preliminary Remarks: Being an Answer to a Volume Entitled "Essays and Reviews." 1813-1888 1861

Apparently he is shocked to learn that not all women think alike, and nearly half of those who think at all take a dim view of a guy who makes millions while regularly referring to women as "babes."

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At one SDCC I was trying to have a conversation with my editor off on the fringe of a booth, not wearing any "booth babe" identifiers-just being a girl in a costume-and we kept getting harassed by people who thought I was one of the booth's "babes."

Dwell On It 2009