Definitions for Feme

Feme feme

Spelling: [fem]
IPA: /fɛm/

Feme is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 18 anagrams from letters in Feme (eefm).

Definitions for Feme

noun

  1. a woman or wife.

Origin of Feme

1585-95; Anglo-French, Old French fem(m)e Latin fēmina woman; akin to fetus, fecund

Examples for Feme

If he should be put into the penitentiary, she may transact business as if she were a feme sole.

The old technical phraseology described husband and wife as baron and feme; the rights of the husband were baronial rights.

Baron and feme we call husband and wife, and coverture we term marriage.

Baron and feme, a term used for husband and wife in English law.

Money given to a feme covert for her maintenance, because her husband is an unthrift.

But at such a stage in social evolution, it is impossible to accept the dominance of the unsupported female or 'feme sole.'

There is indeed one case where the wife shall sue and be sued as a feme sole, viz.

Word Value for Feme
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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