femme

Example Sentences

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In her 2024 Tiny Desk Concert for NPR, Roan is surrounded by seven femme musicians, each wearing red lipstick, blue eyeshadow, a pink button-down or a red party dress.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026

Will you be surprised to learn he carries with him a dark secret, or that his estranged wife, as opposed to the radiant daughter of the boat’s skipper, is one doozy of a femme fatale?

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

Some days it was closer to my ’90s queer teen style and others a ’50s-inspired high femme.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2024

They communicated in femme gay signifiers that we take for granted on television in the decades since Jack McFarland, Sean Hayes’s “Will & Grace” character, skipped across the screen.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2024

The femme fatale must be back, Veronica Lake slinks again.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood