Fameuse
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Fameuse
1800–10; < French, feminine of fameux famous
Example Sentences
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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 M. C. Burritt
He said it was a Fameuse and she declared it was a Yellow Transparent.
From The Story Girl by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
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
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 Anna Bowman Dodd
Have tried and discarded Yellow Transparent, Rambo, Fameuse, and others.
From The Apple by Various
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