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

He said it was a Fameuse and she declared it was a Yellow Transparent.

From The Story Girl by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

Placards, rich in indicative illustrations of hands all forefingers, point, with a directness never vouchsafed the sinner eager to find the way to right and duty, to the inn of "L'Incomparable, la Fameuse Omelette!"

From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Dodd, Anna Bowman

That she was the abandoned woman that the Fameuse Com�dienne and the writers who follow it have depicted her we entirely decline to believe.

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

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.