en femme
adj/ɒn ˈfɑm/UK/ɑn ˈfɑm/US
Etymology
Borrowed from French en femme (“as a woman”) as in s’habille en femme (“dresses as a woman”), from en (“as”) + femme (“woman”).
Definitions
Chiefly of a cross-dressing, non-binary, or trans person
Chiefly of a cross-dressing, non-binary, or trans person: dressed in feminine clothing.
Of a situation
Of a situation: suitable for a cross-dressing, non-binary, or trans person to dress in feminine clothing.
- These Holidays En Femme are for members of Tri-Ess and we welcome prospective members, heterosexual crossdressers, to join with us in our educational and social programs.
Of a cross-dressing, non-binary, or trans person
Of a cross-dressing, non-binary, or trans person: while dressed in feminine clothing.
- G., a crossdresser, lived on the second floor of the hotel at which she worked. Not wanting to walk through the lobby enfemme, she climbed the fire escape. Her heels got stuck in the catwalk and the police had to rescue her.
- Most of them also "love to shop"—especially en femme […]
The neighborhood
- neighborfemme
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for en femme. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA