Festue vs Fescue - What's the difference?
festue | fescue |
A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
* Milton
* 1997 , (Thomas Pynchon),
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.
The style of a sundial.
To use a fescue, or teach with a 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.fescue
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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
- (Chapman)
Verb
(fescu)- (Milton)