Definition of femme
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:woman 1a
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:a lesbian who is notably or stereotypically feminine in appearance and manner
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Lemonade was an undeniable ode to black femmes everywhere.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Origin and Etymology of femme
probably from French femme woman, from Old French feme, from Latin femina
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