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femme

9 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. femme (noun)
  2. feme (noun)
  3. femme couverte
  4. femme du monde (noun)
  5. femme fatale (noun)
  6. femme de chambre (foreign term)
  7. bonne femme (adjective)
  8. cherchez la femme (foreign term)
  9. feme covert (noun)

femme

noun \ˈfem\

Definition of FEMME

1
: woman 1a
2
: a lesbian who is notably or stereotypically feminine in appearance and manner

Variants of FEMME

femme also fem \ˈfem\

Origin of FEMME

probably from French femme woman, from Old French feme, from Latin femina
First Known Use: 1957

Rhymes with FEMME

em, gem, hem, LEM, m, mem, phlegm, REM, Shem, stem, them

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