fair sex



fair sex

Girls or women, as in Many women would object to being called the fair sex nowadays. This euphemism uses fair in the sense of "physically beautiful" and is probably dying out. [Mid-1600s]
See also: fair, sex

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Latonya-African American
FrederikFRAY-də-rik (Dutch)Danish, Dutch
Narseh-Ancient Persian
Rab-Scottish
MÜMtaz-Turkish
Subramanian-Tamil