FEME

Etymology

Noun

feme (plural femes)

(legal, historical) A woman.

Anagrams

• meef

Source: Wiktionary


Feme ( or ), n. Etym: [OF. feme, F. femme.] (Old Law)

Definition: A woman. Burrill. Feme covert (Law), a married woman. See Covert, a., 3.

– Feme sole (Law), a single or unmarried woman; a woman who has never been married, or who has been divorced, or whose husband is dead.

– Feme sole trader or merchant (Eng. Law), a married woman, by the custom of London, engages in business on her own account, inpendently of her husband.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

22 February 2025

ANALYSIS

(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’


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