baron and femme

Noun

baron and femme

1. (dated) Man and wife.
   • [see title]1719, Baron and Femme: A Treatise of the Common Law Concerning Husbands and Wives …
   • [see title]1816, Tapping Reeve, The Law of Baron and Femme, of Parent and Child, of Guardian and Ward, of Master and Servant, and of the Powers of Courts of Chancery
2. The arms of a man and his wife, marshalled together.
   • When the coats of arms of a married couple, descended of distinct families, are to be marshalled on an escocheon, the field of their respective arms is conjoined pale-ways, and blazoned thus: parted per pale, baron and femme; first the baron's arms are to be described, then the femme's.1821, Alexander Jamieson, Universal Science Or the Cabinet of Nature and Art, Comprising Above One Thousand Entertaining and Instructive Facts and Experiments, page 304