What's the difference between epicede and epicene?

Epicede


Definition:

  • (n.) A funeral song or discourse; an elegy.

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Epicene


Definition:

  • (a. & n.) Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites.
  • (a. & n.) Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He arrived in Rome from Milan in 1592 and, having trained under a succession of minor masters, painted a series of strange and erotic genre pieces featuring epicene boys and still-lifes – pictures such as Boy With a Basket of Fruit and Boy Bitten by a Lizard , both from 1593-94.
  • (2) The most ambiguous of his re-creations, epicene black singer, Grace Jones , has just launched the video of her stage act.

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