1A fleshy boneless piece of meat from near the loins or the ribs of an animal.

1. 1.1 A beef steak cut from the lower part of a sirloin.
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   • The chargrilled fillet steak with creamed potatoes and roasted field mushrooms was ordered medium rare and arrived medium.
   • From the prime table - centre, first step up - the fillet steak is at eye-level.
   • With a fillet steak you should leave the thing alone to appreciate its charred exterior, gently yielding texture and pink heart.
   • When my knuckles went white as I tried to cut the fillet steak that followed, I sighed.
   • Vicky's option was a lot more straightforward: a ten-ounce fillet steak with green pepper and brandy sauce.
   • A glass of red wine in a restaurant was discovered to be 16% cheaper and the average price of a fillet steak was reported to be 14% better value in the West.
   • It seems a shame to eat anything other than fish in this restaurant but the fillet steak has become just as renowned.
   • The meat itself is tender, even more so than a fine fillet steak, and requires the gentlest of handling and cooking.
   • You can get a fine fillet steak with chips and trimmings for €10-12.
   • Think depth rather than width and cook it like a proper fillet steak, only seasoning it halfway through the cooking process.
   • In the old days when I ate out on a fairly regular basis, Paul Stiffler was the only chef who knew just how rare I took my fillet steak.
   • The fillet steak in the steak sandwich was so good I even queried Greg as to whether he had slipped a better quality one in, just for me, which he denied.
   • For lunch ‘Blue’ has a fillet steak with baked potato followed by another protein mix in mid-afternoon.
   • Something that had initially caught my eye was the herbed canon of lamb, or the chargrilled fillet steak.
   • As it's so low in fat and cholesterol you have nearly all the flavour of a tender fillet steak and none of the health risks.
   • Then I boil up a portion each morning and pour it into a deep bowl over raw prawns or raw fillet steak, julienne of cucumber, bean sprouts, chilli and noodles.
   • For the main course I paid the modest £2 supplement for the fillet steak.
   • Garlic mushrooms, with salad and dips, appealed to my husband, and then a fillet steak with pepper sauce (there are other sauce choices).
   • The fillet steak, however, was beautifully presented and combined an unusual and delicious array of flavours.
   • All of the players, he said, could now be treated to ‘a fillet steak, instead of toast and beans’.
2. 1.2 A boned side of a fish.
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   • Bea had less luck with her baked fillet of halibut on a creamy risotto of smoked salmon.
   • Before them was a meal including queen of scallop and haddock chowder, herb crusted roast fillet of Irish beef, grilled fillets of west coast sea bass and roast loin of grain fed veal.
   • Season and coat one side of the tilapia fillets with the scallion crust.
   • The fish fillet in wine sauce disappeared off the menu.
   • He smoked 60 cigarettes a day, and hung anchovy fillets round his neck as a talisman to protect his voice.
   • To serve spoon some pineapple mint and heirloom tomato salad onto the center of a plate and set a yellowtail snapper fillet on top.
   • There is an amusing story associated with this extremely expensive and elegant dish which required a whole fillet of sturgeon per person.
   • A good fillet of sea bream was rather overwhelmed by a quilt of very salty black olive paste and the grilled eel in a herb crust was also a little heavy-handed.
   • When ready to cook, strain the court bouillon and pour into a wide sauté pan, just deep enough to cover the salmon fillets.
   • Place a fillet of cod in the center of the plate and garnish with pea shoots, mint, and a lemon half.
   • Wrap each halibut fillet completely with a fig leaf, securing with a toothpick if necessary.
   • The Fish Society's cod fillets are like no other.
   • Top fillet with cilantro, coating it as mush as possible.
   • The Broadcaster had the baked fillet of salmon with a honey and wholegrain mustard crust.
   • Place the cod fillets on a flat work surface and cover each fillet with two slices of the ham.
   • Check the fish fillets for small bones, then set aside.
   • Heat a heavy based frying pan and seal the fillets on both sides and cook to medium rare.
   • I had asked her to tell me, based on what she'd seen in the kitchen, and on the reaction of other diners, whether she would choose the escalopes of veal or the baked fillet of cod.
   • Place a fillet of sea bass on top of the sliced mushrooms.
   • Pour enough water into skillet to cover fillets.

2A band or ribbon worn around the head, especially for binding the hair.

1. 2.1Architecture A narrow flat band separating two moldings.
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   • The generous fillet at the top of the principal cove of the cornice is finished with a two-color mouse-tooth banding.
   • Selling customers on more expensive framing orders is often simply a matter of showing them the effects that wider mats, fillets and more expensive mouldings can have, said several framers.
   • Recognized by decorators and designers around the world, Max Moulding offers a wide variety of mouldings and fillets for every taste, every need and every budget.
   • Can you imagine, if all those perfectly wrought concrete edges had been reduced to the more easily formed standard splayed edge fillets, how impoverished it would seem to us now?
   • Interestingly, surface modelers nowadays take pages from the solid modeling book in how they do things like putting fillets on edges.
   • You'll see the use of texture and complementary fillets all throughout our line of wood and polystyrene mouldings.
   • The extensive factory area across the back of the building includes miniature frame racks fillets representing lengths of moulding.
2. 2.2Architecture A small band between the flutes of a column.

3A concave strip of material roughly triangular in cross section that rounds off an interior angle between two surfaces.

4A plain or decorated line impressed on the cover of a book.

1. 4.1 A roller used to impress a line on the cover of a book.

1Remove the bones from (a fish).

1. 1.1 Cut (fish or meat) into boneless strips.
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   • Big ones over 2lbs I like to fillet four ways, and then grill the fillets using lemon butter as a baste.
   • Nottingham Crown Court heard that staff, in threadbare butchers' aprons, worked into the early hours to fillet carcasses which had been condemned as unfit for human consumption.
   • A variation of this recipe is usually used to garnish Cantonese roast pork, but we slathered it on salt-baked pork chops, which were filleted like veal and fried in crinkly shapes like some strange form of ribbon candy.
   • Competitors fillet tuna to produce an even, level piece.
   • Boyd Line produces ‘frozen at sea’ fillets - caught, filleted and frozen within four hours - mostly for fish and chip shops.