feme
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of feme
1585–95; < Anglo-French, Old French fem ( m ) e < Latin fēmina woman; akin to fetus, fecund
Example Sentences
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The ordinary disabilities are those of infants and married women—now in England greatly mitigated as regards the latter by the Married Women’s Property Acts, 1870 to 1893, which enable a married woman to contract, as a feme sole, to the extent of her separate property.
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Pain did covenant to permit the said Elizabeth to live separate from him and to carry on such Trade and Business as she should think fit, notwithstanding her coverture and as if she were a Feme.
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Quant vois borse desgarnie, Ma feme ne me rit mie.
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Quant je vieng � mon host� Et ma feme a regard� Derier moi le sac enfl�, Et ge qui sui bien par� De robe grise, Sachiez qu'ele a tot jus mise La quenoille, sans faintise.
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Ma feme va destrousser Ma male, sanz demorer.
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