Definition of "fumet"

fumet¹

noun
countable and uncountable, plural fumets
1. A type of concentrated food stock that is added to sauces to enhance their flavour. Variations are fish fumet and mushroom fumet.
2. A ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine.
3. Alternative form of fumette (“stench or high flavour of meat”)

fumet²

noun
1. The excretions of deer, or any Cervidae.
  Quotations
  The next thing to be considered, is the Fumishing ; and this is to be judged of in April or May. If the Fumets be great, large and thick, they signify the Hart to be old.
  1780, Nicholas Cox, The Huntsman‎, page 57
  When he cries he is said to bell; the print of his hoof is called the slot; his tail is called the single; his excrement the fumet; his horns are called his head; […]
  1825, Oliver Goldsmith, A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature, volume II, page 187