fillet
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Middle French filet, ultimately from Latin fīlum (“thread”).
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] 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 just 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 vndight, / And laid her stole aside.
- 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 thin 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 thin flat moulding/molding used as separation between larger mouldings.
[edit] Antonyms
- (rounded outside edge): round
[edit] Translations
strip of deboned meat or fish
mo(u)lding
rounded relief or cut
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] External links
Fillet in the 1921 edition of Collier's Encyclopedia.
[edit] Verb
fillet (third-person singular simple present fillets, present participle filleting, simple 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.
