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filet

[ fi-ley, fil-ey; French fee-le ]

noun

, plural fi·lets [fi-, leyz, fil, -az, fee-, le],


filet

/ ˈfɪlɪt; filɛ; ˈfɪleɪ /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of fillet fillet fillet
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of filet1

C20: from French: net, from Old Provençal filat , from fil thread, from Latin fīlum
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Example Sentences

In all of them you can have filet mignon or lobster, among a wide variety of choices.

Thousands of untraceable frozen filets were trucked off to restaurants and seafood markets.

Line the center of a 12-inch-square piece of foil with lemon rings and add a salmon filet on top of the lemons.

Wrap the foil around the filet into a packet and cook on the edge of the fire until the fish easily flakes apart with a fork.

The filet lives up to at least part of the hype — this thing is pleasantly flaky.

But the fast food chain quickly nixed the idea as the Filet-o-Fish gained popularity.

After all, if the insurer is paying all your grocery claims, why not load up on filet mignon instead of ground turkey?

The horse filet “tournedos style” wrapped in pork fat seemed more appealing, but maybe just a bit too much for lunch.

A day long (or multiday) sous vide cook can turn cheap cuts of meat as tender and tasty as filet.

Carefully place the egg yolk into the pocket that has been created in the filet and seal with a wooden skewer.

At the age of five, the child may be given breast of roast fowl, and occasionally veal cutlet or filet of beef.

Champagne is not the wine to serve with game; that belongs to the filet.

Remove the papers, add butter, salt, pepper and plenty of lemon juice—say the juice of two lemons for a whole filet.

Stew the beef as before, and proceed as for Filet de buf la Beyrout (No. 419).

Could you tap a bottle of Chablis, with a few dozen oysters, and a filet saute with mushrooms to follow it?

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