Fameuse
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Fameuse
1800–10; < French, feminine of fameux famous
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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
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 L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
There is the race or family of the russets and of the Fameuse.
From The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
"Fameuse, sa beauté, comme son omelette," as gravely added our driver.
From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd
Have tried and discarded Yellow Transparent, Rambo, Fameuse, and others.
From The Apple by Various
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