cutlet

[kuht-lit]

noun

a slice of meat, especially of veal, for broiling or frying.

a flat croquette of minced chicken, lobster, or the like.

Origin of cutlet

1700–10; < French côtelette, Old French costelette double diminutive of coste rib < Latin costa. See -let

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Examples from the Web for cutlet

Historical Examples of cutlet

It comes just in season, for there's not a cutlet left in Raucourt.
The Downfall
Emile Zola
But only think of him who converts your cutlet into charcoal, and your steak into starch!
Nuts and Nutcrackers
Charles James Lever
The pigeon (or chicken) must be opened and stuffed with a cutlet of milk veal.
The Italian Cook Book
Maria Gentile
A whiting or a cutlet—that was all the cooking there was to be done.
Germinie Lacerteux
Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
He went to luncheon, swallowed a whiting and half a cutlet, and returned.
The Man Who Lost Himself
H. De Vere Stacpoole

British Dictionary definitions for cutlet

cutlet

noun

a piece of meat taken esp from the best end of neck of lamb, pork, etc

a flat croquette of minced chicken, lobster, etc

Word Origin for cutlet

C18: from Old French costelette, literally: a little rib, from coste rib, from Latin costa

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Word Origin and History for cutlet

1706, from French côtelette, from Old French costelette "little rib" (14c.), a double diminutive of coste "rib, side," from Latin costa (see coast (n.)); influenced by English cut.