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femcee (複数形 femcees)

1. A female host of a television show.
   • 2008, Christine Becker, It’s the Pictures That Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars on 1950s Television, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page 80:

     Why was Emerson a failure in 1940s Hollywood but a blazing success as a femcee on early 1950s television?

   • 2008, Catherine Gourley, Gidgets and Women Warriors: Perceptions of Women in the 1950s and 1960s, Twenty-First Century Books, →ISBN, page 48:

     In addition to radiating personality, a femcee had to sell products. When she wasn't demonstrating a kitchen appliance, as Furness did in commercials, a femcee often hosted game shows, where the prizes were wonderful new consumer goods on display in department stores and on supermarket shelves.

   • 2015, Charles L. Ponce de Leon, That's the Way It Is: A History of Television News in America, The University of Chicago Press (2015), →ISBN, page 34:

     Francis, a regular panelist on What's My Line?, was a poised and dignified “femcee,” and she also served as the program's managing editor.

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2. A female rapper.
   • 2009, Dalton Higgins, Hip Hop World, Groundwood Books, →ISBN, page 67:

     […] to arguably rap's greatest emcees Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. and femcee Lauryn Hill.

   • 2010, Steve Jones, "Listen Up: Thank God for Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday", USA Today, 22 November 2010, quoted in Felicity Britton, Nicki Minaj: Conquering Hip-Hop, Twenty-First Century Books (2013), →ISBN, page 38:

     She's been featured on dozens of rap and R & B tracks, and she's the only femcee [female MC] currently on the rap charts.

   • 2014, Msia Kibona Clark, “Gender Representations among Tanzanian Female Emcees”, in Misa Kibona Clark; Mickie Mwanzia Koster, editor, Hip Hop and Social Change in Africa: Ni Wakati, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 151:

     The most well-known Tanzanian femcee to live abroad is Rah-P, who continues to live in Houston, Texas.

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