Middle English Dictionary Entry
feme n.
Entry Info
| Forms | feme n. Also femme. |
| Etymology | AF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Law feme couvert, a married woman; ~ sole, an unmarried woman, or a married woman who holds property in her own right. [Not attested in E context until c1600.]
Associated quotations
- c1320(1304) Yrbk.Edw.I in RS 31.4195 : Nous avoms conte vers vous come vers feme sole, e vous come feme sole avez defenu les damages.
- (1344) RParl.2.150a : Touchant Dismes des Boys & Testamentz des niefs & femmes covertes, le Roi voet [etc.].