Cutlet
['kʌtlɪt] or ['kʌtlət]
Definition
(noun.) thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled.
Checked by Cindy--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A piece of meat, especially of veal or mutton, cut for broiling.
Editor: Rena
Definition
n. a slice of meat cut off for cooking esp. of mutton or veal—generally the rib and the meat belonging to it.
Typed by Aldo
Examples
- And here's the cutlet! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I thought you liked boiled chicken better than cutlet, Mrs. Vesey? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Wery good little dinner, sir, they can get ready in half an hour--pair of fowls, sir, and a weal cutlet; French beans, 'taturs, tart, and tidiness. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- After some discussion on the relative merits of veal-cutlet, sweetbread, and lobster, a decision was pronounced in favour of veal-cutlet. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And they fought for veal-cutlets out of a silver basket. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- At my own house I had turtle cutlets fried; they were perfectly good, and tasted like turtle. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I don't know when I've known him make a better one, and he's ordered a good dish of cutlets for his lunch. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Come, Pip, said Joe, persuasively, if there warn't no weal-cutlets, at least there was dogs? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Editor: Vicky