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fustet

“fustet” is a Catalan word. Its 4 meanings in English:

noun

  1. smoke tree (Cotinus coggygria)
  2. old fustic (Maclura tinctoria)
  3. chopped-up wood of tanner's sumac (Rhus coriaria)
  4. a certain size of wooden beam, varying between 30 and 32 pam of length, and about 1 pam thick and 1+1/4 pam wide.

In Catalan

  1. Arbust de la família de les anacardiàcies, amb infructescències plomoses, la fusta del qual era utilitzada com a colorant groc per a tenyir fibres i pells (Cotinus coggygria).

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan fustet, from Arabic فُسْتُق (fustuq, “pistachio”). Doublet of festuc and pistatxo.

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