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Dame vs Femme - What's the difference?

dame | femme |

As a verb dame

is .

As a noun femme is

(archaic|rare) a woman, a wife, particularly in heraldry.

dame

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (British) The .
    • Dame Edith Sitwell
  • (dated, informal, slightly, derogatory, US) A woman.
  • * 1949 , (Oscar Hammerstein II), "(There is Nothing Like a Dame)",
    • There ain't nothin' like a dame'! / Nothin' in the world! / There is nothin' you can name / That is anythin' like a ' dame !
  • A traditional character in British pantomime, a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.
  • (archaic) , woman.

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    femme

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic, rare) A woman, a wife, particularly in heraldry.
  • * 1885 , Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 18:
    • 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."
  • (slang, LGBT) A feminine lesbian, especially one who is attracted to masculine (butch) lesbians.
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