fustet

[fuh-stet]

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noun

the smoke tree, Cotinus coggygria.
Also called young fustic. the dyewood of this tree.

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Origin of fustet

1815–25; < French < Provençal < Spanish fustete, by association with fuste stick. See fustic

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Fustet, fus′tet, n. the smoke-tree or Venetian sumach, or its wood.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M)
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