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femme
In French combinations: femme de ménage, a charwoman, or domestic help; femme du monde, a woman of the world; femme fatale, a dangerously attractive woman; femme incomprise, a woman who is misunderstood or not truly appreciated.
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fem-, femi-
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“femme”
bonne femme
1. Also à la bonne femme. In the manner of a good housewife; applied especially postpositively to food prepared in various ways.
2. Etymology: from French, bonne, "good" and femme, "wife".
2. Etymology: from French, bonne, "good" and femme, "wife".
A dangerously attractive woman: "Bernadette was considered to be beautiful and seductive; however, she was also thought to be a dangerous woman because she influenced men into dangerous or compromising situations."
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fa-, fam-, fan-, fant-, fat-, -fess; fab-, fabul-
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fem-, femi-
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