The story
- French · borrowed fromen femme“as a woman”
- English todayen femme
Borrowed from French en femme (“as a woman”) as in s’habille en femme (“dresses as a woman”), from en (“as”) + femme (“woman”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
en femme
Today it means: Chiefly of a cross-dressing, non-binary, or trans person: dressed in feminine clothing. Full definition →
French en femme