1. A woman.
2. A wife. — Also spelled femme.
feme covert (fem k[schwa]v-[schwa]rt). [Law French “covered woman”] Archaic. A married woman. • The notion, as Blackstone put it, was that the husband was the one “under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing.” 1 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Law of England 430 (1766). See COVERTURE.
feme sole (fem sohl). [Law French] Archaic.
1. An unmarried woman.
2. A married woman handling the affairs of her separate estate.
— Also termed (in sense 2) feme sole trader; feme sole merchant.
