fescues

Noun

fescue (countable and uncountable, plural fescues)

1. (countable) A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
   • to come under the fescue of an imprimatur1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC
2. A hardy grass commonly used to border golf fairways in temperate climates, of the genus Festuca.
3. (countable) An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.
   • with thy golden fescue play'dst upon
     Thy hollow harpc. 1610s, Homer (attributed), translated by George Chapman, The Crowne of all Homers Workes: Batrachomyomachia, or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise […], published 1624
4. (countable) The style of a sundial.

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