fillet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a boneless piece or strip of meat or fish, especially a tender cut of beef or a side of fish

   She baked a salmon fillet with lemon and herbs.

2. 2
   noun

   a narrow band or ribbon, especially one worn around the head or used as an ornament

   The gold fillet encircled the figure's hair in the ancient portrait.

3. 3
   noun

   engineering and architecture: a narrow strip or molding, or a rounded inside corner joining two surfaces

   The designer added a fillet where the bracket met the supporting plate.

4. 4
   verb

   to remove the bones from meat or fish, or to cut it into fillets

   The fishmonger will fillet the trout while you wait.

Common collocations

• fish fillet Noun + noun

From Middle English filet, through Old French filet, a diminutive of fil, 'thread,' from Latin filum. The early sense was a narrow band or ribbon; the food sense arose for a strip of meat or fish, perhaps from its shape or from meat tied with string.

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