English citations of femcee

Noun: "a female host of a television show"

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  • 2007, Gary R. Edgerton, The Columbia History of American Television, Columbia University Press (2007), →ISBN, page 86:
    Formerly a child star in Hollywood, Helen Parrish was a high-spirited and eager-to-please "femcee," []
  • 2008, Christine Becker, It’s the Pictures That Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars on 1950s Television, Wesleyan University Press (2008), →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 (2008), →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.

Noun: "a female rapper"

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  • 2009, Dalton Higgins, Hip Hop World, Groundwood Books (2009), →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.
  • 2013, Shehnaz Suterwalla, "From Punk to the Hijab: Women's Embodied Dress as Performative Resistance, 1970s to the Present", in Oral History of the Visual Arts (eds. Matthew Partington & Linda Sandino), Bloomsbury Academic (2013), →ISBN, page 161:
    Imagine listening to a female punk from the 1970s sharing dress experiences with a young British Muslim girl in hijab in 2011, who in turn compares notes with a 1980s black hip-hop femcee.
  • 2014, Msia Kibona Clark, "Gender Representations among Tanzanian Female Emcees", in Hip Hop and Social Change in Africa: Ni Wakati (eds. Misa Kibona Clark & Mickie Mwanzia Koster), Lexington Books (2014), →ISBN, page 151:
    The most well-known Tanzanian femcee to live abroad is Rah-P, who continues to live in Houston, Texas.
  • 2019, "The style and the values of Priestess in the new Foot Locker campaign," NSS G-Club. December 16, 2019. [1]
    Her style halfway between rap and trap, along with a recognizable and signature look, like the black bob and the artistic nail art, have made the femcee one of the brightest Italian talents of the last few years.