Crossword clues for fumet
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fumet \Fu"met\ (f[=u]"m[e^]t), n. [Cf. F. fumier dung, OF.
femier, fr. L. fimus dung.]
The dung of deer.
--B. Jonson. [Sometimes spelled fewmet.]
Fumet \Fu"met\Fumette \Fu*mette"\, n. [F. fumet odor, fume of
wine or meat, fr. L. fumus smoke. See Fume, n.]
The stench or high flavor of game or other meat when kept
long.
--Swift.
Fumet \Fu`met"\, n. [F.] A high-flavored substance, such as extract of game, for flavoring dishes of food; less properly, a ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 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 nodot=yes English) (stench or high flavour of meat) Etymology 2
n. The dung of deer.
Wikipedia
Fumet may refer to
- Dynam-Victor Fumet, French composer and organist
- A kind of stock (food)
Usage examples of "fumet".
Aiden Fumet is a very aggressive man, which is all right in itself certain types of agent and manager have always been aggressive.
What puts Fumet beyond even the most distant pale is that he is also self-righteous.
I was sitting at work trying to read a treatment for a game show that had been sent in by Aiden Fumet on behalf of one of his acts.
Trevor does a very good Aiden Fumet, who has a strange hybrid accent half bored aristocratic rock star and half East End stallholder.
Nigel probably imagines me as some spiky-haired punk, since Aiden Fumet normally only represents fashionable people.
This was a roasted leveret, very strong of the fumet, which happened to be placed directly under his nose.
In it, a master showed a supposed pupil how to train dogs and falcons, lay traps, recognise a stag by its fumets, and a fox or a wolf by footprints.
And what a variety of names they had for them: the Crotels of a Hare, the Friants of a Boar, the Spraints of an Otter, the Werderobe of a Badger, the Waggying of a Fox, the Fumets of a Deer.