femme
Americannoun
adjective
noun
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a woman or wife
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a lesbian who adopts a feminine role in a relationship
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of femme
First recorded in 1930–35; from French: literally “woman”; see origin at feme
Example Sentences
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The director, best known for his muscular action thrillers “La Femme Nikita” and “Léon: The Professional,” is often given to extravagantly silly filmmaking: “The Fifth Element,” “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
But a new revival from La Femme Theater at the Signature Center mires itself too deeply in its characters’ confusions to let the edges of his language shine.
From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2023
Femme a la Montre is a portrait of Walter seated in a throne-like chair against a blue background.
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2023
It would be years yet before I would see “Operation Beton,” his debut documentary of 1955, and “Une Femme Coquette,” his 1956 feature short adapted from the Maupassant story “The Sign.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2022
If the date of his first book, L'Enfant de ma Femme, is correctly given as 1812, he must apparently have written it before he was eighteen.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George
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