What's the difference between femme and women?

Femme


Definition:

  • (n.) A woman. See Feme, n.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Discussing activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s anthology, Why Are faggots So Afraid Of Faggots?” , academic Alex Rowlson finds that the increasing phenomenon of profiles on gay men’s dating sites that contain exclusion lists like “no blacks; no Asians; no fats; no femmes; str8-acting only” is indicative of a significant undercurrent; that “ the culture of sexual liberation has been replaced by sexual segregation .” I read a staggering piece recently, entitled Why I No Longer Want To Be Gay .
  • (2) Trierweiler, who calls herself "une femme de caractère", was referring to the fact that Falorni had been asked to step aside by the Socialist party to enable Royal to win the seat.
  • (3) The Women Incendiaries by Edith Thomas (1963) Richard Cobb had told me about Thomas’s participation in the Union des Femmes Françaises during the Resistance which left her familiar with barricades.
  • (4) Recent research suggests that butch-femme role playing in lesbian couples has diminished and been replaced with androgynous attitudes and behaviors.
  • (5) "The international community wants to force Mali's hand," Diakité Fatoumata Siré, president of women's group Association pour le Progrès et la Défense des Femmes au Mali (Apdef), told journalists.
  • (6) The stuff that reinforced that image – I'm Waiting for the Man, Street Hassle, Dirt, Kicks, Sad Song – was matched by songs of real tenderness, not in the grudging tears-of-a-tough-guy style, but open and honest and touchingly fragile (see Femme Fatale's ruined suitor warning others off to Coney Island Baby , his lovestruck paean to Rachel, the beautiful drag queen who was his mid-70s companion ).
  • (7) Both lift us out of our everyday monotony – poets by finding the eternal within the quotidian; royals by gliding about in crowns and ballgowns – and I am not a femme serieuse .
  • (8) Ardant was discovered by international audiences in 1981, when she starred opposite Gérard Depardieu in La Femme d'à côté ( The Woman Next Door ), directed by François Truffaut (with whom Ardant had the first of her three daughters), but British film-goers will remember her more recent portrayal of opera diva Maria Callas in Franco Zeffirelli's 2002 film, Callas Forever .
  • (9) He said: “It’s interesting that the artists that have a resonance today are not the ones who had a resonance 10 years ago.” The London sales come with an Atlantic tailwind of the dizzying record-breaking prices achieved at Christie’s in New York last month, including the $179.4m (£114m) paid for Pablo Picasso’s Les Femmes d’Alger, making it the most expensive painting sold at auction.
  • (10) This led to the Hélène cycle, in which Audran as Hélène played a wife: adulterous in La Femme Infidèle and Les Noces Rouges (Wedding in Blood, 1973), put upon in La Rupture (1970) and betrayed in Juste Avant la Nuit (Just Before Nightfall, 1971).
  • (11) Jean-Luc Godard 's films alone hit one like bullets, their charge not unlike reading a Stendhal novel – Le Mépris, Bande à part, Une Femme Mariée, Pierrot le Fou, Deux ou Trois Choses, La Chinoise, Weekend dominated the decade.
  • (12) We thought we were meeting Eva, tourist "greeter" and founder of artists' network Les Femmes du Panier, at Marseille's town hall at 3.30pm.
  • (13) "Seeing myself in relation to femmes helps clarify that sense of masculinity," she says, which made the changes her body went through in pregnancy even more discombobulating, the differences between her and her femme friends shifting and fading.
  • (14) Lately, though, she's been joined by other chart femme fatales keen to address death with all the gusto of a Slayer album.
  • (15) In support of Badinter, Sabine Salmon, president of the association Femmes Solidaires, said that during school visits over the past two years her employees had noticed more and more French schoolgirls expressing a desire to stay at home.
  • (16) More to the point, where is the female Judd Apatow, playing godmother to a new wave of funny ladies in femme-oriented comedies that allow their characters to live lives beyond Prada?
  • (17) While there was nothing being sold that would have encouraged the stellar prices achieved at Christie’s in New York last month – record prices of $179.4m (£114.23m) for Pablo Picasso’s Les Femmes d’Alger and $141.3m (£89.97m) for Alberto Giacometti’s L’homme au doigt – there were still seven lots which sold for over £10m.
  • (18) After the hostile reception to Les Bonnes Femmes, Chabrol was forced to make a series of potboilers until he was given the chance to direct Les Biches (The Does, 1968), a cool, callous and witty menage à trois tale, which put him firmly back on the "art cinema" circuit.
  • (19) FEMME – High Day-Glo pop entity FEMME, AKA Laura Bettinson, first came to a small part of the music-buying public’s attention via producer Nigel Godrich’s “multimedia trio”, Ultraísta.
  • (20) As bidding on Picasso’s Les Femmes d’Alger (Version O) reached $151m, Christie’s global president Jussi Pylkkänen – auctioneer for the night – said: “We’re in new territory.” As the final bids rose in $500,000 increments, he spread his arms wide, as if to capture the sensation of the global art market reaching the stratosphere.

Women


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Woman
  • (n.) pl. of Woman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
  • (2) Collins said she asked Sullivan several questions, including who the women were.
  • (3) In this book, he dismisses Freud's idea of penis envy - "Freud got it spectacularly wrong" - and said "women don't envy the penis.
  • (4) All the women had vaginal ultrasound velocimetry studies in both mainstem uterine arteries through the parametrium before the surgical procedure and again after the procedure.
  • (5) Nulliparous women were also more likely to discontinue the condom because of pregnancy, as were non-Protestants and the Australian-born.
  • (6) Even though attempts to generalize the data from childbearing women to women of childbearing age have an inherent conservative bias, the results of our study suggest that 988 women (95% CI 713 to 1336) aged 15 to 44 years in Quebec had HIV infection in 1989.
  • (7) This effect was more marked in breast cancer patients which may explain our earlier finding that women with upper body fat localization are at increased risk for developing breast cancer.
  • (8) The availability and success of changes in reproductive technology should lead to a reappraisal of the indications for hysterectomy, especially in young women.
  • (9) The epidemiology of HIV infection among women and hence among children has progressively changed since the onset of the epidemic in Western countries.
  • (10) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
  • (11) More research and a national policy to provide optimal nutrition for all pregnant women, including the adolescent, are needed.
  • (12) After a discussion of the therapeutic relationship, several coping strategies which have been used successfully by many women are described and therapeutic applications are offered.
  • (13) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
  • (14) Elderly women need to follow the same strategies as postmenopausal women with more emphasis on prevention of falls.
  • (15) Total cholesterol levels are elevated, particularly in hypopituitary women.
  • (16) In the 153 women to whom iron supplements were given during pregnancy, the initial fall in haemoglobin concentration was less, was arrested by 28 weeks gestation and then rose to a level equivalent to the booking level.
  • (17) The frequency of gastric malignancies in the families of the women with gastric polyps was higher than in the controls and in men, 6.2, 3.1 and 2.4 percent, respectively (p less than 0.05, and p less than 0.025).
  • (18) Four cases of pregnancies in two women with tricuspid atresia (TA) are described.
  • (19) In 2012, 20% of small and medium-sized businesses were either run solely or mostly by women.
  • (20) These 150 women, the word acknowledges, were killed for being women.

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