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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
feme       [fem] Pronunciation Key
–noun Law.
a woman or wife.
[Origin: 1585–95; < AF, OF fem(m)e < L fémina woman; akin to fetus, fecund]
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feme       (fěm)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. Law A wife.
  2. Obsolete A woman.


[Anglo-Norman, from Latin fēmina; see female.]

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Feme

Feme\ (? or ?), n. [OF. feme, F. femme.] (Old Law) 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, who, by the custom of London, engages in business on her own account, inpendently of her husband.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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