femme
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Five years later, she portrayed femme fatale Eve Kendall, dangerously seducing Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock's action thriller North by Northwest.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
In Lowen’s overactive imagination, Hathaway plays a Hitchcockian femme fatale always wearing her signature color, red.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
They made off with a portrait titled "Madame Colonna Romano" and the depiction of a woman at a well called "Jeune femme au puits", his office said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
In her 2024 Tiny Desk Concert for NPR, Roan is surrounded by seven femme musicians, each wearing red lipstick, blue eyeshadow, a pink button-down or a red party dress.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2026
The femme fatale must be back, Veronica Lake slinks again.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Inside, she found people, primarily femmes, dancing shoulder to shoulder in the humid room to artists like Rosalía and El Alfa.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2024
Black trans femmes have been and currently are at the forefront of social liberation movements, while experiencing unique forms of targeted discrimination, oppression, and violence.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 14, 2024
"When I look out to the audience and I see women or femmes connecting to it, I think maybe you know," Sawayama says.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2023
“Black trans women and femmes specifically are the most marginalized in our communities,” Patterson said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
Mistresses and favourites, Rosicrucians and valets, theosophists and femmes galantes, on the whole got on very well together and agreed surprisingly.
From German Problems and Personalities by Charles Saroléa
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