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								of grammatical gender 2.
								associated with men and not with women
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								(music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable
 a masculine cadence
 the masculine rhyme of 'annoy, enjoy'
 
 'masculine' - used as a noun
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								a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male
 
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