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fes⋅cue

  [fes-kyoo]
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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, ME festu < MF < VL *festūcum, for L festūca stalk, 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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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