femme

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noun \ ˈfem \

variants: or less commonly fem

Definition of femme

1 :woman 1a

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

Recent Examples of femme from the Web

Lemonade was an undeniable ode to black femmes everywhere.

— clarkisha kent, The Root, "Sophia Coppola’s Blatant Erasure of Black Women in The Beguiled Highlights How White Women Are Complicit in White Supremacy," 25 June 2017
The art, the music, the fashion, the brains, the fight, the survival skills, the diversity, male, female, non-binary, Gender Non Conforming, cis, trans, femme and ALL races.

— justin tranter, Billboard, "Justin Tranter: Love Letter to the LGBTQ Community," 1 June 2017
Even then, the representation of their queerness feels flawed; all too often, there’s an androgynous skinny white girl who seduces a white femme in a relationship with a man.

— rachel charlene lewis, Glamour, "How Queer Films Continue to Fail Women of Color," 31 May 2017
What started out as anti-black comments on social media has turned into the dismissal of the rights of students and femmes of color, physical violence by police, and false sentencing of students protesting.

— kyler sumter, USA TODAY College, "Protests erupt over racism at Evergreen State College," 30 May 2017
A laconic, strait-laced, hilariously hard-boiled investigator with an encyclopedic knowledge of perps past and present, Miramontes’ Charlie isn’t about to be led around by the nose by femmes Mona or Veronica.

— Orange County Register, "‘Kill Me, Deadly’ in Fullerton delivers dead-on parody of film noir," 29 Mar. 2017

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