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noun
A type of concentrated food stock that is added to sauces to enhance their flavour. Variations are fish fumet and mushroom fumet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Alternative form of fumette (“stench or high flavour of meat”).
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Usage: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
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noun
The excretions of deer, or any Cervidae.
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History
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.
