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   femme

   /fɛm/

   noun

   • 1. a lesbian whose appearance and behaviour are seen as traditionally feminine.
   • 2. a woman: informal, dated "Gwen is one seriously fierce femme as she shows off her strength"

   adjective

   • 1. female; feminine: "a post-feminist metaphor for femme empowerment"
   • ▪ (of a lesbian) having an appearance or other qualities of a type traditionally seen as feminine.

   Word Origin early 19th century: French, ‘woman’.

   Scrabble Points: 12

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   What does femme mean?

   • 充当女性角色的女同性恋者… Need a translator? Get a quick, free translation! FEMME definition: 1. (of a gay woman) behaving in a traditionally female way: 2. a gay woman who behaves in a….

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   What does femme fatale mean?

   • In flashback, we learn how this man lost the will to live, a story that naturally involves a femme fatale. Read about the team of authors behind Collins Dictionaries. 2 meanings: 1. a woman or wife 2. (fɛm) a lesbian who is regarded as having traditionally feminine traits.... Click for more definitions.

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   What does feme mean in French?

   • From Old French fame, femme, feme, from Latin femina, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-éh₂ (“(the one) nursing, breastfeeding”), derivation of the verbal root *dʰeh₁ (y)- (“to suck, suckle”). Various spellings such as feme, fame and fenme were used in Old French . femme f (plural femmes)

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   What does femme mean in a ballroom?

   • The term femme is also essential to ballroom culture through the terms butch queen and femme queen, denoting a gay man and transgender woman respectively. By the 1990s, the term femme had additionally been adopted by bisexual women.

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   What is Femme Feminism?

   • Femme has also been used to describe a form of contemporary feminism which rejects the gender binary and acknowledges that individuals can fall anywhere within the gender spectrum, resulting in the possibility to be gender-less, gender-fluid, femme or masculine of center.

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   What does a femme wear?

   • A femme may wear dresses, heels, pearls, and makeup; a femme may wear pants, silk blouses, and red lipstick; a femme may wear a suit, tie, and earrings; a femme may wear a jersey, kicks, and a ring—a femme may completely pass as a butch upon visual inspection, but, so long as she perceives herself as feminine, she is femme.

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   Femme definition: a lesbian who embraces identity markers that are associated with traditional expressions of femininity, as clothing, hairstyle, interests, or behaviors.. See examples of FEMME used in a sentence.

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   femme. noun [ C ] uk / fem / us / fem /. a gay woman who behaves in a traditionally female way: She had been involved with a femme. Fewer examples. She would later complain that femmes had been ignored by LGBT activists. Others wore traditionally feminine clothing and assumed a more diminutive role as femmes.

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   Femme (/ f ɛ m /; French:, literally meaning "woman") is a term traditionally used to describe a lesbian woman who exhibits a feminine identity or gender presentation. While commonly viewed as a lesbian term, alternate meanings of the word also exist with some non-lesbian individuals using the word, notably some gay men and bisexuals.

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   1. : woman sense 1a. 2. : a lesbian who is notably or stereotypically feminine in appearance and manner. Examples of femme in a Sentence.

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   2 meanings: 1. a woman or wife 2. (fɛm) a lesbian who is regarded as having traditionally feminine traits.... Click for more definitions.

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   Definition of femme adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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   Jun 2, 2024 · femme (plural femmes) A woman, a wife; (now chiefly Canada, US) a young woman or girl. [from 19th c.] ( LGBT) A lesbian or other queer woman whose appearance, identity etc. is seen as feminine as opposed to butch. [from 20th c.] Synonym: (less common) fem. Antonym: butch.