-enne
a personal noun suffix occurring in loanwords from french, where it forms feminine nouns corresponding to masculine nouns ending in -en (comedienne, doyenne); on this model, of very limited productivity in english, forming distinctively feminine nouns from words ending in -an: equestrienne.
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