Wednesday Word: Epicene

epicene |ˈepiˌsēn| adjectivehaving characteristics of both sexes or no characteristics of either sex; of indeterminate sex: the sort of epicene beauty peculiar to boys of a certain age.• effeminate; effete: the actor infused the role with an epicene languor.nounan epicene person.ORIGIN late Middle English (as a grammaticalterm): via late Latin from Greek epikoinos (based on koinos ‘common’).
Until yesterday I had no knowledge of the existence of this word. You'd think it should be listed as a synonym for androgynous but my dictionary doesn't think so.

Vintag Monday: Conundrum

I have no idea what's going on here. This could be a photo of a bearded lady, perhaps from a circus sideshow or a Victorian cross-dresser. Or a cross-dresser disguised as a bearded lady.