English

Noun

fescue ‎(plural fescues)

1. A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
   • Milton

     to come under the fescue of an imprimatur

   • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon

     ‘Now then,’ Mason rapping upon the Table’s Edge with a sinister-looking Fescue of Ebony, whose List of Uses simple Indication does not quite exhaust, whilst the Girls squirm pleasingly

2. A hardy grass commonly used to border golf fairways in temperate climates. Any member of the genus Festuca.
3. An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.

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4. The style of a sundial.

Translations

Verb

fescue ‎(third-person singular simple present fescues, present participle fescuing, simple past and past participle fescued)

1. To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.

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