Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In decorative art, a thin line forming part of a design or ornamenting an edge or the like; a fillet: as, a filet in gold in bookbinding; a filet of ruby luster on a majolica vase. See fillet.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- v. decorate with a lace of geometric designs
- n. a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef
- n. a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish
- n. lace having a square mesh
- v. cut into filets
Etymologies
- French, from Old French, diminutive of fil, thread, from Latin fīlum; see file1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Pan cooking a thin filet like this little red snapper is the way to go, and there are a few cooking suggestions near the end.”
“The dish features a beef tender loin filet roasted with peppercorn crust and topped with sauteed mushrooms and a ruby port wine reduction.”
“You can crap on a silver platter, call it filet mingon, serve it up to your friends and all take a bite.”
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“One of the foremost clubs in London one day changed its cook; and its members were astonished to find that the steak which had formerly been served to them under the name filet de boeuf was now always announced as a Chateaubriand.”
“Other than the fact that I've paid $30 to be teased by this speck of beef you call a filet and three-quarters of my plate is taken up by a cheesy dish that smells suspiciously like a dead horse's yeast-infected cooter ... everything's hunky dory, Ace.”
“People today act like a filet is the only edible part of a cow.”
“I also thought the filet was a very good size, I would say about 6 to 8 oz.”
“Pork tenderloin, like its relative the beef tenderloin sometimes called filet mignon, is among the leanest cuts of meat.”
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“Two meat entrees also scored: a miso-glazed Berkshire pork chop with sweet and sour peaches, and a petite teres steak a cut best described as filet mignon with flavor in a tomato vinaigrette with a succotash of corn, cipollini and fava beans, and salt-roasted fingerling potatoes.”
“The gnocci that came with the filet was a little bit bland - but the plate was still clean at the end of the meal.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘filet’.
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Lace
Terms pertaining to lace and lace-making. Patterns, tools, types, styles, stitches.
bone lace, pillow lace, point, needlelace, bobbin lace, bones, bobbin, linen thread, hand-lacemaking, lace pillow, bobbinet, lacemakers' guild and 256 more...
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Meat Parts: the Cuts, the Innards, an...
T-bone - Sounds good!
Shoulder - Alright.
Liver - Fine.
Sweetbread - Okay.
Gizzard - Pushing it.
Brains - What?!wing, wedge bone sirloin, veal, umbles, tri-tip, tripe, triangle steak, tournedo, top sirloin, top loin, tongue, thigh and 147 more...
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Columniation
A list of terms pertaining to columns employed in architecture.
hypostyle, peristyle, columniation, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, base, shaft, capital, entablature, architrave, frieze and 78 more...
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Meat
sausage, pepperoni, pork chop, ham, tongue, fricandeau, veal, tenderloin, mutton, boeuf, terefah, gammon and 33 more...
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Wharton, Edith. Age of Innocence. 1920
A list of difficult words for L2-12 learners.
Faust, erection, metropolitan, splendor, shabby, conservatives, cherished, inconvenient, clung, acoustics, coupe, scramble and 261 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, F
felony, frolic, fend, fuselage, farthingale, freewheeling, frigorific, flummery, fancypants, felsitic, flagstone, flageolet and 295 more...
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spoon
being items relating to food, cooking and the kitchen.
spoon, fork, beef, slice, dozen, eggs, simmer, broil, salad, soup, stock, lard and 287 more...
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French words in German language
words and phrases with french background commonly used in the german language, so-called "Gallizismen"
trottoir, paravent, rayon, perron, fauteuil, garage, arrangement, etablissement, portemonnaie, parterre, coupé, voliere and 123 more...
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another yet
anneal, copepod, cuckoo, fathead, intone, patter, cabriole, knickknack, boodle, kit, estrange, forebode and 209 more...
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encyclopedia gustatorica
béchamel, tart, pie, cupcake, roux, jambalaya, étouffé, succulent, plum, pomegranate, peach, apple and 300 more...
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Culinary
bittersweet, epicurious, culinary, liquor, stainless, santoku, mozzarella, brie, toast, cilantro, rosemary, espresso and 6 more...
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Food
Some of my favourite cooking and eating terms, some obscure, some so common as to be misunderstood.
sommelier, gustatory, oenophile, macedoine, bouquet garni, mince, braise, olio, cassoulet, render, larding, barding and 57 more...
Tweets
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qroqqa I don't think so. Rather, we use the word fillet, as in fillet of beef, where AmE uses or might use filet. In the one expression where we do definitely write filet we pronounce it in French fashion, [ˈfɪleɪ], namely filet mignon [ˈfɪleɪ ˈmɪnjɒ~]. There is a stress difference: BrE [ˈfɪleɪ], AmE [fɪˈleɪ]. Aug 18, 2010
ivypluck The British pronounce the hard t at the end as in fillet. Aug 17, 2010