Femme vs Gayface - What's the difference?
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(archaic, rare) A woman, a wife, particularly in heraldry.
* 1885 , Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 18:
(slang, LGBT) A feminine lesbian, especially one who is attracted to masculine (butch) lesbians.
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An obvious, apparent, or stereotypical appearance of homosexuality based on a person's countenance often characterized by effeminacy in males and masculinity in females.
* Details , Volume 27, Issues 7-9
As nouns the difference between femme and gayface
is that femme is a woman, a wife, particularly in heraldry while gayface is an obvious, apparent, or stereotypical appearance of homosexuality based on a person's countenance often characterized by effeminacy in males and masculinity in females.femme
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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."
gayface
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Noun
(en-noun)- Not just because of his famously homoerotic sonnets but because Shakespeare seems to have had-let's be blunt here-a serious case of gayface .