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Old 09-12-2009, 11:52 AM   #5528
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Originally Posted by Nate the great View Post
That is interesting, but can you show a continuous use from then til now? I ask becuase without showing a use in the years between then an equally likely argument would be that the word female was used as a noun then and then stopped being used as a noun. In this case, what we are seeing now would be a shift in the usage.
Yes, there is continuous use from then to now, however the oldest books I checked (I didn't check very many of those) used it to describe non-human females, but from the 17th century it is also used as a synonym for woman.

I used google books search with the advanced option to limit publication date and searched for females as only the noun can be a plural with an S at the end (well, that's what you'd think at least, I did see one occurence where females was used as an adjective).
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