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fillet 1. a thin strip of ribbon, lace, etc., worn in the hair or around the neck 2. a narrow flat moulding, esp one between other mouldings 3. a narrow band between two adjacent flutings on the shaft of a column 4. a narrow strip of welded metal of approximately triangular cross-section used to join steel members at right angles 5. the top member of a cornice 6. Anatomy a band of sensory nerve fibres in the brain connected to the thalamus 7. another name for fairing fillet [′fil·ətor, of food,fə′lā] (building construction) A flat molding that separates rounded or angular moldings. (design engineering) A concave transition surface between two otherwise intersecting surfaces. (engineering) Any narrow, flat metal or wood member. A corner piece at the juncture of perpendicular surfaces to lessen the danger of cracks, as in core boxes for castings. (food engineering) A boneless slice of meat or fish. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The spell of the fair wind has a subtle power to scatter a white-winged company of ships looking all the same way, each with its white fillet of tumbling foam under the bow. My hand wandered to the velvet cheek of the girl I had claimed as mine, and to her luxuriant hair and the golden fillet which bound it close to her shapely head. But glimpses were to be caught of a roast leg of pork bursting into tears of sage and onion in a metal reservoir full of gravy, of an unctuous piece of roast beef and blisterous Yorkshire pudding, bubbling hot in a similar receptacle, of a stuffed fillet of veal in rapid cut, of a ham in a perspiration with the pace it was going at, of a shallow tank of baked potatoes glued together by their own richness, of a truss or two of boiled greens, and other substantial delicacies. |
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