The word "Femme"

Hello! =)

I'm opening this little thread because I read quite often the word "femme" in people's messages, when playing their characters. Since I'm French, I was wondering if the word "femme" was indeed employed in English and I couldn't find it anywhere in my English dictionary. XD

That's why I'm asking you, guys (at least, the ones who write it), why keep you inserting "femme" in your roleplays? °_° In French, "femme" means "woman", as much of you may know. But it is never used instead of "femelle" ("female", in English).

You would say : "La femelle est partie." and it is translated by : "The female is gone". I really don't get this use of "femme", though, instead of "female". °°

[?SilentCallings?]

FEMME?

Femme is sometimes used so that the word 'female' isn't repeatedly used to sound redundant. Unlike in wolf roleplays, where you are able to use the words 'lupess' or 'she-wolf', the only other term for a female dog is 'bitch', but even though it is a correct way to call the animal, it doesn't sound very nice X3

Click Here<3 I understand that since you can speak French that you would be a bit confused by this, but I don't think they are basing the word off of it's French counterpart, not at least intentionally, for perhaps one roleplayer tried finding synonyms for female and found that, the link I posted above, and thus started using the word, then others began as well. I hope this was of used to you, I'm not very good at explaining things XDD
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Thanks, Silent. I understand slightly better now =) Even though it will remain a word that will sound pretty strange and inexact to my ears xD

Instead of femme, though, role-players could maybe use English words? As for example : the lady, the girl, the miss ? I know it isn't properly the right words since they usually don't apply for dogs. But you say "Good girl!" when you want to congratulate your female dog ^^'