Fameuse

American  

[fuh-myooz] / fəˈmyuz /

noun

1. an American variety of red apple that ripens in early winter.

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Etymology

Origin of Fameuse

1800–10; < French, feminine of fameux famous

Example Sentences

Vermonters call it "oldfashioned" because it has so many varieties�high-flavored Spitzenburg, hardy Wealthies, late-ripening Fameuse, good-cooking Greenings, fine-for-cider Russets, as well as English Pippins and an Australian species.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is the race or family of the russets and of the Fameuse.

From The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)

The Northern Spy, the McIntosh, and the Fameuse are not to be excelled as they are grown in the Champlain Valley, in Vermont, or in Maine.

From Apple Growing by Burritt, M. C.

Here, at last, the author of the Fameuse Com�dienne is on sure ground; for we know, on unimpeachable authority, that an "amicable" separation did actually take place between Moli�re and his wife.

From Queens of the French Stage by Williams, H. Noel

The Baldwin, Fameuse, Northern Spy and Red Canada are particularly subject to this disease, and it is much more troublesome in moist seasons than when the weather is dry.

From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)