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

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

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 Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)

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