n.
- a fleshy boneless piece of meat from near the loins or the ribs of an animal.
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(also fillet steak)
a beef steak cut from the lower part of a sirloin.
▸a boned side of a fish.
- a band or ribbon binding the hair.
- Architecture a narrow flat band separating two mouldings.
▸a small band between the flutes of a column.
- a roughly triangular strip of material which rounds off an interior angle between two surfaces.
- a plain line impressed on the cover of a book.
v.
(fillets, filleting, filleted)
remove the bones from (a fish).
▸cut (fish or meat) into fillets.
Derivative
Etymology
ME: from OFr. filet ‘thread’, based on L. filum ‘thread’.
