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
Pyry	PUY-ruy	Finnish
Olivia	ə-LIV-ee-ə (English), o-LEE-vyah (Italian, Spanish), o-LEE-vee-ah (German), O-lee-vee-ah (Finnish)	English, Italian, Spanish, German, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Florence	['flɔ:rəns]
Edison	['edisn]
Najib	-	Arabic
NergÜI	-	Mongolian