English

Noun

fumet ‎(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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)

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): /fymɛ/

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.

Latin

Verb

fūmet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of fūmō