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Webster 1828 Edition


Fumet

FU'MET

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Noun.
The dung of deer.

Definition 2024


fumet

fumet

English

Noun

fumet (plural fumets)

  1. A type of concentrated food stock that is added to sauces to enhance their flavour. Variations are fish fumet and mushroom fumet.
  2. A ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine.
  3. Alternative form of fumette (stench or high flavour of meat)

Etymology 2

Compare French fumier dung, Old French femier, from Latin fimum (dung). See fewmet.

Noun

fumet

  1. The dung of deer.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)

References

  • fumet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • The Larousse Gastronomique
  • Fumet, die.net.

French

Etymology

From fumer + -et.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fymɛ/

Noun

fumet m (plural fumets)

  1. aroma, odor (of meat etc.); bouquet (of wine)
  2. (hunting) scent

References

  • fumet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • The Larousse Gastronomique
  • Fumet, die.net.

Latin

Verb

fūmet

  1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of fūmō