femme

la femme (FR N-F) woman, the feminine sex, who bears children; wife; female domestic servant. First appears in French in 1080, from Latin femina. (Anon., Apollinaire, Bourget, Debussy, Eluard, Fombeure, Gautier, Grandmougin, Hugo, Parny, Renard, Sully-Prudhomme, Verlaine, Villon, Vilmorin)