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Effeminacy |
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Effeminacy Blue Boy Gainsborough painting depicting princely lad with sissyish overtones. [Br. Art.: Misc.] title-inheriting, yellow-curled sissy in velvet. [Am. Lit.: Little Lord Fauntleroy] personification of “sissy.” [Pop. Culture: Misc.] |
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Finally, though, as will soon be revealed, its contents partly comprise the most delicate oil; yet, you are now to be apprised of the nature of the substance which so impregnably invests all that apparent effeminacy. Yet there was a set of the mouth and a prominence of the chin which relieved him of any trace of effeminacy. He was a very warlike man, and the armies, being disgusted with the effeminacy of Alexander, of whom I have already spoken, killed him and elected Maximinus to the throne. |
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