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feme|fɛm|
Also 6 feeme, 6–7 fem, 8–9 femme.
[a. OF. feme, Fr. femme woman, wife.]
1. Law. (Chiefly conjoined with baron.) Wife.
(The technical spelling is feme; but in non-professional use the mod.F. form has often been adopted. So also in feme-covert: see below.)
[1292] , 1594, 1611 [see baron n. 5].a1626Bacon Max. & Uses Com. Law i. (1636) 2 The feme is entitled to dower. 1714Scroggs Courts-leet (ed. 3) 161 If a Feme Copyholder for Life takes Husband, who commits a Waste, this shall bind the Wife. [1813Byron in Moore Life (1847) 217 Divorce ruins the poor femme.] 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) II. 334 The feme died leaving issue; then the baron died. 1873Dixon Two Queens II. ix. viii. 142 An ancient custom of the land described the man and wife as baron and feme.
†2. In 16th c. often used (in verse and somewhat playfully) for: Woman. Obs.
1567Turberv. Ovid's Epist. 76 So bolde Away to have a Greekish feme purloynde. 1577T. Kendall Flowers of Epigrammes 58 Three ills that mischefe men..the Fem, the Flud, the Fire. 1594Willobie Avisa (1880) 15 Nature hath begot Of Fleeting Feemes, such fickle store. 1653H. Whistler Upshot Inf. Baptisme i. 6 The Fem was concerned as (in desire) one. |