English Explanatory Dictionary

fumet

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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”).
noun
  1. The excretions of deer, or any Cervidae.

Word forms

fumet fumets

Etymology

From the French fumet (“aroma”), from Latin fumus (“smoke”). Doublet of fumetto.

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