Fameuse
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Fameuse
1800–10; < French, feminine of fameux famous
Example Sentences
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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
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
Quite a number of writers, including several who are inclined to place but little confidence in the rest of the Fameuse Com�dienne, pronounce unhesitatingly for the genuineness of the above conversation.
From Queens of the French Stage by Williams, H. Noel
It did not appear at first, says the author of the Fameuse Com�dienne, that time had greatly modified the hostility with which Mlle.
From Queens of the French Stage by Williams, H. Noel
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)
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