Meaning of Femme | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A woman, a wife; (now chiefly Canada, US) a young woman or girl.
2. A lesbian or other queer woman whose appearance, identity etc. is seen as feminine as opposed to butch.
3. A person whose gender is feminine-leaning, such as a feminine non-binary person.
   uncommon

Equivalents

Examples

“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."”

“Theodore J. Flicker and George Kirgo have⟳ penned a good script in which Elvis is played off against four femmes […].”

“Some of the most political dykes in town had already converted, tossing out their Levi's and Birkenstocks in favor of poodle skirts and heels. It was no longer a question⟳ of butch vs. femme, liberations vs. oppression. Clothes did not unmake the woman; clothes were just clothes.”

“Monique whispered something to a butch sitting near her. The butch crossed the room and approached our table. “Hey,” she called to me. I didn't look⟳ up. “Hey, femme, you wanna dance⟳ with a real butch?””

“Given the myth that lesbian femmes will eventually leave⟳ their butches for men, there is an understandable unwillingness to acknowledge bisexual femmes, who really might do it — as indeed they have⟳ every right to.”

“I love⟳ butches, though. I dated a femme once. That was wrong on so many levels.”

“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 …”

“[…] there is no story of Black pain deeper than that of Black fat women and femmes. […] ¹ Gender expansive for women, femmes, and nonbinary folks.”

“Jordan-Zachery offers two dominant scripts that are often written onto Black women's, femmes', and girls' bodies: The Ass and Strong Black Woman scripts.”

“[...] and any person who might partake in feminine expression (cis and trans women and men, nonbinary femmes...).”

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