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Word entry · 6 letters

fescue

Best crossword clue

"Pasture grass"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈfɛskjuː/Part of speech nounSorted ceefsuStarts with FEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns

Word origin

From Old French festu (modern fétu), from Proto-Romance festu, from Latin festūca (“stalk, stem, straw”).

Used in a sentence

  • to come under the fescue of an imprimatur
  • ‘Now then,’ Mason rapping upon the Table’s Edge with a sinister-looking Fescue of Ebony, whose List of Uses simple Indication does not quite exhaust, whilst the Girls squirm pleasingly
  • with thy golden fescue play'dst upon Thy hollow harp

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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues

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