filbert
/ˈfɪlbət
/noun
1A cultivated hazel tree that bears edible oval nuts.
- Genus Corylus, family Betulaceae: several species, in particular the Kentish cob (Corylus maxima).
- This super-sorter might be used to sort other crops, such as hazelnuts, also called filberts, and wheat, notes Pearson.
- Americans, in general, reserve the name hazelnut for their wild species, and call their cultivated nuts, which are almost all descended from European species, filberts.
1.1The nut of the filbert tree. Also called cob1.Food proteins causing acute reactions in patients are few in number such as peanuts, walnuts, filberts, eggs, fish, crustaceans (shelled joint-legged aquatic animals), cotton seed, kiwi and lastly milk, and wheat (rare in adults)....
- A broached brambleberry pie, a glass of wine and frothed tumbler of ale have been left in a disarray of pewter dishes and scattered filberts: untidy by Dutch standards, apart from the sharply ironed tablecloth.
- Place 1/2 cup (125 mL) chopped filberts in well-greased 9-inch (3 L) tube pan.
2 (also filbert brush) A brush with bristles forming a flattened oval head, used in oil painting.He'd come up with some charming excuse: he'd left his long filbert brush, he couldn't go on without it....
- Filberts are a compromise between flat and round brushes, being shaped to a slight curve at the tip to produce soft, tapered strokes.
- Filberts are one of the most useful brushes one can own, in fact with several different sizes, a painter can do just about anything.
Origin
Middle English fylberd, from Anglo-Norman French philbert, dialect French noix de filbert (so named because it is ripe about 20 August, the feast day of St Philibert).