Femʹynye (3 syl.).
A mediæval name for the kingdom of the Amʹazons. Gower terms Penthesileʹa “queen of Feminee.”
“He [Thessus] conquered al the regne of Femynye.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.