Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Pertaining to a femme; feminine, female. · Effeminate (of a man). · Characteristic of a feminine lesbian or queer woman.
verb
To feminize.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA woman; a wife; (now chiefly Canada, US) a young woman or girl. · A lesbian or other queer woman whose appearance, identity etc. is seen as feminine as opposed to butch. · A person whose gender is feminine-leaning, such as a feminine non-binary person. · An effeminate or gay man.
From Middle English femme, itself borrowed from Old French fame (whence French femme), from Latin femina (“woman”). Doublet of feme, femina, and hembra.
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