Utiliser "mannish" dans une phrase

1. Trask changed, and they rushed around picking up, putting away, vacuuming, making the beds neater, starting a fire in the stove to take the chill off, boiling water for tea—and before long there appeared a car in the drive and a knock at the door, and here came a blocky darkish woman in a severe mannish pants-suit, barging into the house as if she owned it

2. She unplucked coat buttons with mannish yet fragile motions, gave wallets back, sneaked them away