women collectively: used with the: now sometimes considered a patronizing term
fair sex
fair sexWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Usage notes
- Usually preceded by the.
- In contemporary usage, this term may be regarded by some as patronizing toward women, though it was not originally intended thus.
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"fair sex." YourDictionary, n.d. Web. 22 January 2019. <https://www.yourdictionary.com/fair-sex>.
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fair sex. (n.d.). Retrieved January 22nd, 2019, from https://www.yourdictionary.com/fair-sex
