fillet
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
fillet (plural fillets)
- (now rare) A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.iii:
- In secret shadow, farre from all mens sight: / From her faire head her fillet she undight, / And laid her stole aside.
- 1713, Alexander Pope, Windsor Forest:
- A fillet binds her hair.
- 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, Mew York 2007, p. 42:
- She was talking of Raymond Duncan, a walking absurdity who dressed in an ancient handwoven Greek costume and wore his hair in long braids reaching to his waist, adding, on ceremonial occasions, a fillet of bay-leaves.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.iii:
- A fine strip of any material, in various technical uses.
- (construction) A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet.
- (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an inside edge, added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.
- A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones and skin and feathers have been removed.
- (architecture) A fine flat moulding/molding used as separation between coarser mouldings.
- (architecture) The space between two flutings in a shaft.
- (heraldiccharge) An ordinary equal in breadth to one quarter of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
- The thread of a screw.
- A colored or gilded border.
- The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun.
- (woodworking) Any scantling smaller than a batten.
- (anatomy) A fascia; a band of fibres; applied especially to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
- The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.
- (a boneless cut of meat) filet
- (rounded outside edge) round
- German: Haarband, Haargummi
- German: Dichtfuge, Dichtleiste
- German: Kannelüre
- German: Gewinde, Schraubengewinde, Schraubgewinde
fillet (fillets, present participle filleting; past and past participle filleted)
- (transitive) To slice, bone or make into fillets.
- (transitive) To apply, create, or specify a rounded or filled corner to.
- French: désosser, lever les filets
- Italian: disossare
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