Meaning of fumet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A type of concentrated food stock that is added to sauces to enhance their flavour. Variations are fish fumet and mushroom fumet.
   countable, uncountable
2. The excretions of deer, or any Cervidae.
3. A ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“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.”

“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; […]”

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