fumet

English

Etymology 1

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

Noun

fumet (countable and uncountable, plural fumets)

  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)

Etymology 2

Compare French fumier dung, Old French femier, from Latin fimum (“dung”). See fewmet.

Noun

fumet

  1. The dung of deer, hares, etc.
    • 1780, Nicholas Cox, The Huntsman‎, page 57:
      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.
    • 1825, Oliver Goldsmith, A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature, volume II, page 187:
      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; […]

References

  • fumet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • The Larousse Gastronomique
  • Fumet, die.net.

French

Etymology

From fumer + -et.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fy.mɛ/

Noun

fumet m (plural fumets)

  1. aroma, odor (of meat etc.); bouquet (of wine)
  2. (hunting) scent

References

  • fumet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • The Larousse Gastronomique
  • Fumet, die.net.

Further reading

Latin

Verb

fūmet

  1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of fūmō
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