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  2. List of metonyms - Wikipedia

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    A short street in central London: The high-quality bespoke men's suits made by tailors' shops on the street [47] Scotland Yard: The original public entrance (via "Great Scotland Yard") to the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police Service: London or British police, especially detectives [48] Stormont: An estate in County Down, east of ...

  3. Metonymy - Wikipedia

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    For instance: Wall Street, used metonymically, can stand for the entire U.S. financial and corporate banking sector; [27] K Street for Washington, D.C.'s lobbying industry or lobbying in the United States in general; [28] Hollywood for the U.S. film industry, and the people associated with it; Broadway for the American commercial theatrical ...

  4. Femboy - Wikipedia

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    According to Dictionary.com, the term femboy originated in the 1990s and is a compound from the words fem (an abbreviation of feminine and femme) and boy. [1] [2] One early usage can be seen in a 1992 piece by gay artist Ed Check. [3] The variant femboi uses the LGBT term boi. [1] By 2000, the term boi [4] had come to denote "a young ...

  5. Gender in English - Wikipedia

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    Nouns seem to possess a well defined but covert system of grammatical gender. We may call a noun masculine, feminine or neuter depending on the pronouns which it selects in the singular. Mass or non-count nouns (such as frost, fog, water, love) are called neuter because they select the pronoun it. Count nouns divide into masculine and feminine.

  6. Anima and animus - Wikipedia

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    Carl Jung described the animus as the unconscious masculine side of a woman, and the anima as the unconscious feminine side of a man, each transcending the personal psyche. [1] They are considered animistic parts within the Self, with Jung viewing parts of the self as part of the infinite set of archetypes within the collective unconscious. [2]

  7. Femininity - Wikipedia

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    Femininity can be understood as socially constructed, [1] [2] and there is also some evidence that some behaviors considered feminine are influenced by both cultural factors and biological factors. [1] [3] [4] [5] To what extent femininity is biologically or socially influenced is subject to debate.

  8. 48 of the best Valentine’s Day Gifts to celebrate your love ...

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    When we tested the best flower delivery services, 1-800 Flowers was the overall winner, thanks to its fresh blooms, professionally arranged bouquets, and wide range of products.For Valentine’s ...

  9. Cross-dressing in literature - Wikipedia

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    The Rose of Versailles (1972) - The female protagonist, Oscar François de Jarjayes, dresses as a man, but privately acknowledges her feminine side. Johnny, My Friend (a translation of the Swedish novel Janne, min vän from 1985) - Johnny is a girl disguising as a boy.