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Festue vs Fescue - What's the difference?

festue | fescue |

As nouns the difference between festue and fescue

is that festue is a straw; a fescue while fescue is a straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.

As a verb fescue is

to use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.

festue

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A straw; a fescue.
  • (Holland)
    (Webster 1913)

    fescue

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
  • * Milton
  • to come under the fescue of an imprimatur
  • * 1997 , (Thomas Pynchon),
  • ‘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
  • A hardy grass commonly used to border golf fairways in temperate climates. Any member of the genus Festuca .
  • An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.
  • (Chapman)
  • The style of a sundial.
  • Verb

    (fescu)
  • To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.
  • (Milton)