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

A comparative lesson may also be based on selected varieties of autumn apples, such as Fameuse, McIntosh Red, Wealthy, Gravenstein, and St. Lawrence.

From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study by Ontario. Ministry of Education

"Fameuse, sa beauté, comme son omelette," as gravely added our driver.

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

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

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