Definition of "femme" in English

noun

1. A woman, a wife; (now chiefly Canada, US) a young woman or girl.

2. (LGBTQ) A lesbian or other queer woman whose appearance, identity etc. is seen as feminine as opposed to butch.

3. (LGBTQ, less common) A person whose gender is feminine-leaning, such as a feminine non-binary person.

   • 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.

adjective

1. (chiefly Canada, US, journalism, entertainment) Pertaining to a femme; feminine, female.

2. (chiefly derogatory) Effeminate (of a man).

3. Characteristic of a feminine lesbian or queer woman.

   • Her style was more femme than butch.