Femme

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  • noun. A person, especially a lesbian or a gay man, who exhibits stereotypical feminine traits, often in an exaggerated way.
  • noun. A woman or girl.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. See feme.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A woman. See feme, n.
  • noun. A lady's maid; a chambermaid.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A woman, a wife, particularly in heraldry.
  • noun. A feminine lesbian, and especially one who is attracted to masculine (or butch) lesbians.
  • Word Usage
    "As he began to introduce The Woman Men Yearn For, film critic Leonard Maltin suggested that it's time people stopped using the term "femme fatale" as their default for describing characters like those portrayed onscreen by Marlene Dietrich."