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noun
1.
Also called fescue grass. any grass of the genus Festuca, some species of which are cultivated for pasture or lawns.
2.
a pointer, as a straw or slender stick, used to point out the letters in teaching children to read.
Origin:
1350–1400; earlier festue, Middle English festu < Middle French < Vulgar Latin *festūcum, for Latin festūca stalk, straw
1350–1400; earlier festue, Middle English festu < Middle French < Vulgar Latin *festūcum, for Latin festūca stalk, straw
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Fescue
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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World English Dictionary
| fescue or fescue grass (ˈfɛskjuː) | |
| —n | |
| meadow fescue See also sheep's fescue any grass of the genus Festuca: widely cultivated as pasture and lawn grasses, having stiff narrow leaves | |
| [C14: from Old French festu, ultimately from Latin festūca stem, straw] | |
| fescue grass or fescue grass | |
| —n | |
| [C14: from Old French festu, ultimately from Latin festūca stem, straw] | |
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Word Origin & History
fescue
1513, "pointer," from O.Fr. festue, a kind of straw, from L. festuca "straw, stalk, rod," probably related to ferula (see ferule). Sense of "pasture, lawn grass" is first recorded 1762.
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