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]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Callisto (2)	kə-LIS-to (English)	Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Julijana	-	Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian
Emilija	EM-ee-lee-yah (Serbian, Croatian)	Lithuanian, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian
Nidia	-	Spanish
Hylda	HIL-də	English (Rare)
Netta (2)	-	Hebrew