femmes

Noun

femme (plural femmes)

1. A woman; a wife; (now chiefly Canada, US) a young woman or girl.
   • Then I turned to him and said, "O my lord, I have that to propose to thee wherein thou must not cross me; and this it is that, when we reach Baghdad, my native city, I offer thee my life as thy handmaiden in holy matrimony, and thou shalt be to me baron and I will be femme to thee."1885, Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 18
2. A lesbian or other queer woman whose appearance, identity etc. is seen as feminine as opposed to butch.
   • Near-synonym: lipstick lesbian (sometimes differentiated)

   Synonyms:

   fem, lipstick lesbian[lipstick lesbian

   Antonyms:

   butch

3. (uncommon) A person whose gender is feminine-leaning, such as a feminine non-binary person.
   • The same is true of Goddess Spirituality spaces which are predicated on Radical Feminist rhetorics about Nature and the embodied experience – even those spaces which are open to trans women and nonbinary femmes may still fall back on language about the womb …2018, Queer Magic: Power Beyond Boundaries (Lee Harrington, Tai Fenix Kulystin), page 79
4. (US, derogatory) An effeminate or gay man.
   • All I know is in this outfit I feel like a total femme! You know what? I don't have a problem with that.1993 September 11, “Operation Double 007”, in Mystery Science Theater 3000, spoken by Tom Servo

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