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Femme
Definitions
- 1 Pertaining to a femme; feminine, female. Canada, US
"Admittedly, Kiedis was concerned about the lack of femme rockers on the bill: the only women featured were in British band Lush, who would open each day's festivities before a few hundred curious onlookers."
- 2 Effeminate (of a man). derogatory
- 3 Characteristic of a feminine lesbian or queer woman.
"Her style was more femme than butch."
- 1 A woman, a wife; (now chiefly Canada, US) a young woman or girl.
"Then I turned to him and said, "O my lord, I have that to propose to thee wherein thou must not cross me; and this it is that, when we reach Baghdad, my native city, I offer thee my life as thy handmaiden in holy matrimony, and thou shalt be to me baron and I will be femme to thee.""
- 2 A lesbian or other queer woman whose appearance, identity etc. is seen as feminine as opposed to butch.
"Some of the most political dykes in town had already converted, tossing out their Levi's and Birkenstocks in favor of poodle skirts and heels. It was no longer a question of butch vs. femme, liberations vs. oppression. Clothes did not unmake the woman; clothes were just clothes."
- 3 A person whose gender is feminine-leaning, such as a feminine non-binary person. uncommon
"The same is true of Goddess Spirituality spaces which are predicated on Radical Feminist rhetorics about Nature and the embodied experience – even those spaces which are open to trans women and nonbinary femmes may still fall back on language about the womb …"
Etymology
Borrowed from French femme (“woman”). Doublet of feme, femina, and hembra.
Borrowed from French femme (“woman”). Doublet of feme, femina, and hembra.
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