femme

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) A woman, a wife;  a young woman or girl.
 * 2)  A lesbian or other queer woman whose appearance, identity etc. is seen as feminine as opposed to butch.
 * 3)  A person whose gender is feminine-leaning, such as a feminine non-binary person.
 * 4) * 2018, Queer Magic: Power Beyond Boundaries (Lee Harrington, Tai Fenix Kulystin), page 79:
 * 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 [...]
 * 1) * 2019, The Lemonade Reader: Beyoncé, Black Feminism and Spirituality (Kinitra D. Brooks, Kameelah L. Martin):
 * there is no story of Black pain deeper than that of Black fat women and femmes.
 * 1 Gender expansive for women, femmes, and nonbinary folks.
 * 1) * 2019, Black Girl Magic Beyond the Hashtag (Julia S. Jordan-Zachery, Duchess Harris), page 21:
 * Jordan-Zachery offers two dominant scripts that are often written onto Black women's, femmes&apos;, and girls' bodies: The Ass and Strong Black Woman scripts.
 * 1)  A person whose gender is feminine-leaning, such as a feminine non-binary person.
 * 2) * 2018, Queer Magic: Power Beyond Boundaries (Lee Harrington, Tai Fenix Kulystin), page 79:
 * 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 [...]
 * 1) * 2019, The Lemonade Reader: Beyoncé, Black Feminism and Spirituality (Kinitra D. Brooks, Kameelah L. Martin):
 * there is no story of Black pain deeper than that of Black fat women and femmes.
 * 1 Gender expansive for women, femmes, and nonbinary folks.
 * 1) * 2019, Black Girl Magic Beyond the Hashtag (Julia S. Jordan-Zachery, Duchess Harris), page 21:
 * Jordan-Zachery offers two dominant scripts that are often written onto Black women's, femmes&apos;, and girls' bodies: The Ass and Strong Black Woman scripts.
 * Jordan-Zachery offers two dominant scripts that are often written onto Black women's, femmes&apos;, and girls' bodies: The Ass and Strong Black Woman scripts.

Adjective

 * 1)  Pertaining to a femme; feminine, female.
 * 2)  Effeminate (of a man).
 * 3) Characteristic of a feminine lesbian or queer woman.
 * 1)  Effeminate (of a man).
 * 2) Characteristic of a feminine lesbian or queer woman.

Etymology
, from, , , from , from , derivation of the verbal root. The Old French pronunciation was, which then became through lowering of nasal vowels, finally  in Middle French through denasalisation before. Other words in which -e- is pronounced include, and the adverbs in.

See cognates in regional languages in France: 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) woman
 * 2) wife
 * 1) wife
 * 1) wife

Etymology
From, , , from , from , derivation of the verbal root. Various spellings such as, and  were used in.

Noun

 * 1) wife
 * 2) woman female adult human being

Etymology
From, , , , from , from , derivation of the verbal root.

Noun

 * 1)  wife
 * 2)  woman

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) woman