No gender indicated...I have no habit of associating it with one or the other

It seems to be one of those words that is seldom if ever used except as part of a phrase. I've never seen it in any other context except Feminine Pulchritude - a little like the "rosy-fingered Dawn" that Homer used so paradigmatically; you can't have one without the other. Which is probably the reason I thought it was a feminine noun without a masculine equivalent.