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fescue (iou)



fescue noun & verb. Also (earlier) festu. LME.
[Old French festu (mod. fetu) from Proto-Romance, from Latin festuca stalk, stem, straw.]
A. noun.
A straw, a twig; something small or trivial. LME-E17.
A small stick etc. for pointing out the letters to children learning to read; a pointer. Now rare. E16.
Any of various perennial freq. wiry and tufted grasses constituting the genus Festuca; any of several slender annual grasses constituting the genus Vulpia. Also fescue-grass. M18.
Chewings fescue, rat's-tail fescue, red fescue, sheep's fescue, etc.
B. verb trans. Direct or assist in reading, using a fescue. M17-M18.