filetn.

Brit.

/ˈfɪlɪt/,

/ˈfɪleɪ/, U.S.

/fɪˈleɪ/,

/ˈfɪleɪ/

Forms: Also fillet.

Etymology: < French filet thread.

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.

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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