fumet

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noun

A type of concentrated food stock that is added to sauces to enhance their flavour. Variations are fish fumet and mushroom fumet.

OriginFrench fumet ← Latin fumus →
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Meanings

fumet1

nounfumet (countable and uncountable, plural fumets)

plural fumets

  1. countableuncountableA type of concentrated food stock that is added to sauces to enhance their flavour. Variations are fish fumet and mushroom fumet.
  2. countableuncountableA ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine.
  3. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of fumette (“stench or high flavour of meat”).

fumet2

noun
  1. The excretions of deer, or any Cervidae.

    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; […]

    1825, Oliver Goldsmith, A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature, volume II, page 187
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    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.

    1780, Nicholas Cox, The Huntsman, page 57

Origin

fumet · noun

  1. Latinfumus“smoke”
  2. Frenchfumet“aroma”
  3. Englishfumet

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

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fumet · noun

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

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“fumet.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fumet. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fumet,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fumet.

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