fescue

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

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

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

He is now upon me: I had placed myself with a jerk under him, as commodious and open as possible to his attempts, which were untoward enough, for his machine, meeting with no inlet, bore and battered stiffly against me in random pushes, now above, now below, now beside his point; till, burning with impatience from its irritating touches, I guided gently, with my hand, this furious fescue to where my young novice was now to be taught his first lesson of pleasure. — Memoirs of Fanny Hill: A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749), John Cleland

fescue grass, meadow fescue, Festuca elatior

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