fumet
fumet noun: a type of concentrated food stock that is added to sauces to enhance their flavour. Variations are fish fumet and mushroom fumet. Also the alternative form of fumette.
Noun (1)
fumet (countable and uncountable, plural fumets)
Noun (2)
fumet
- The excretions of deer, or any Cervidae.
- The next thing to be considered, is the Fumishing ; and this is to be judged of in April or May. If the Fumets be great, large and thick, they signify the Hart to be old.1780, Nicholas Cox, The Huntsman, page 57
- When he cries he is said to bell; the print of his hoof is called the slot; his tail is called the single; his excrement the fumet; his horns are called his head; […]1825, Oliver Goldsmith, A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature, volume II, page 187
Also used as
fumet is also the alternative form of fumette.
Forms of fumet
| plural | fumets |
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Origin of fumet
From the French fumet (“aroma”), from Latin fumus (“smoke”). Doublet of fumetto.
Compare French fumier dung, Old French femier, from Latin fimum (“dung”). See fewmet.
Questions about fumet
- What does fumet mean?
- Fumet means a type of concentrated food stock that is added to sauces to enhance their flavour. Variations are fish fumet and mushroom fumet.
- What part of speech is fumet?
- Fumet is a noun.
- What is the plural of fumet?
- The plural of fumet is fumets.
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