fumet

English

Etymology 1

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

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 excretions of deer, or any Cervidae.
   • 1780, Nicholas Cox, The Huntsman‎^[1], 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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• The Larousse Gastronomique
• Fumet, die.net.

French

Etymology

From fumer + -et.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fy.mɛ/

• Audio:

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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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• The Larousse Gastronomique
• Fumet, die.net.

Further reading

• “fumet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

fūmet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of fūmō