filetn.
/ˈfɪlɪt/, /ˈfɪleɪ/, U.S. /fɪˈleɪ/, /ˈfɪleɪ/ 1. A kind of net or lace having a square mesh. Also attributive, as filet lace, filet net, filet veiling.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > with open texture > net or mesh > other
caul1481
mosquito netting1768
whip-net1839
filet1881
Grecian netting1882
vitrage net (also cloth)1886
pig net1948
micromesh1959
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [adjective] > with open texture > net
filet1904
1881 C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork Mod. Homes i. 82 Drawn-work, with darned filet and cut-work.
1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 221/1 Fillet ground, a net with absolutely square holes, similar to canvas, but more defined and ‘lacey’ in appearance.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 9 Mar. 13/2 The lace might be of cream silk filet.
1907 Daily Chron. 25 June 8/3 The new filet designs.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 24 Aug. 13/1 A nice tea-gown..with filet laces.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 8 Aug. 13/2 The square spotted filet veiling.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 28 Dec. 5/1 A brown filet net trimmed with small rosettes of velvet.
1931 Evening Standard 29 Jan. 5/3 Fadeless artificial silk filet net.
1953 M. Powys Lace & Lace-making iv. 33 Lacis or filet, 16th century. A rare pointed pattern made for collars or to border a cover. The groundwork is the knotted filet mesh made like a fish net and with the same implements.
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a. /ˈfiːleɪ//fɪˈleɪ/ Cookery. = fillet n.1 6a, 6c. Also in filet de bœuf.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > beef > [noun] > steak or fillet
beef-steak1711
entrecôte1840
filet de bœuf1841
porterhouse steak1842
porterhouse1854
bifteck1861
fillet steak1877
tournedos1877
pope's eye1885
filet mignon1906
minute steak1910
T-bone1916
churrasco1917
Swiss steak1932
strip steak1962
shell steak1968
hanger steak1988
1841 W. M. Thackeray Misc. Ess. (1885) 385 The beefsteak cut from the filet, as is usual in France.
1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xl. 918 Entrees, Filet de Bœuf and Spanish Sauce.
1864 G. Meredith Let. 24 Feb. (1970) I. 245 Smooth flow the Sauces!—may the filets tender be!
1951 E. David French Country Cooking 114 Your beef..should be a fine piece of filet.
1962 Harper's Bazaar Aug. 69/1 Tournedos steaks cut from the tail end of a filet de boeuf.
b. filet mignon n. a slice cut from the small end of the tenderloin of beef.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > beef > [noun] > steak or fillet
beef-steak1711
entrecôte1840
filet de bœuf1841
porterhouse steak1842
porterhouse1854
bifteck1861
fillet steak1877
tournedos1877
pope's eye1885
filet mignon1906
minute steak1910
T-bone1916
churrasco1917
Swiss steak1932
strip steak1962
shell steak1968
hanger steak1988
1906 ‘O. Henry’ Four Million (1916) 67 ‘We'll have oysters to-night.’ ‘And filet mignon with champignons.’
1960 L. Cooper Accomplices iii. iv. 176 A delightful meal—caviare, an iced consommé, a filet mignon.
1961 J. Heller Catch-22 (1962) xxii. 233 Yossarian and Orr..went..to eat shrimp cocktails and filet mignon in a very fine restaurant.
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