feme

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feme¹

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From Middle English feme, from Anglo-Norman feme (“woman”), from Old French femme, from Latin fēmina. Doublet of femina, femme, and hembra.

noun femes

  1. historical A woman. TRESPASS FOR INTERMEDDLING WITH A FEME. There are some curious decisions in the old books regarding this point of law, with which it may be useful to be acquainted. In Br. Ab. Tresp. 40, it is said that a man may aid a feme who falls upon the ground from a horse, and so if she be sick, and the same

FEME²

noun

  1. abbreviation, uncountable Abbreviation of familial essential myoclonus and epilepsy

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@misc{feme_2026,
  title = {feme},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/feme},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}