fumet

Plural: fumets

Noun

• The strong aroma of cooking meat.
• A type of concentrated food stock that is added to sauces to enhance their flavour. Variations are fish fumet and mushroom fumet.
• A ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine.
• Alternative form of fumette (“stench or high flavour of meat”).
• The excretions of deer, or any Cervidae.

Examples

• The word FUMET, though short, offered a strategic hook to extend his play.