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Cutlet   Listen
noun
Cutlet  n.  A piece of meat, especially of veal or mutton, cut for broiling.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Cutlet" Quotes from Famous Books



... "No, not no bouleward for me thank ye." "Well, then, we will have the 'entree de boeuf—beef with sauce tomate—and there is a cotelette de veau en papillotte;—which will you take?" "I'll trouble the beef, I think; I don't like that 'ere pantaloon cutlet much, the skin is so tough." "Oh, but you don't eat the paper, man; that is only put on to keep this nice layer of fat ham from melting; take some, if it is only that you may enjoy a glass of champagne after it. There is no meat like veal for paving the way for ...
— Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities • Robert Smith Surtees

... hands folded, looking at you with all his might. You impress on your waiter that you have ten minutes for dinner, and he proposes that you shall begin with a bit of fish which will be ready in twenty. That proposal declined, he suggests—as a neat originality—'a weal or mutton cutlet.' You close with either cutlet, any cutlet, anything. He goes, leisurely, behind a door and calls down some unseen shaft. A ventriloquial dialogue ensues, tending finally to the effect that weal only, is available on the spur of the moment. You anxiously call out, ...
— The Uncommercial Traveller • Charles Dickens

... and always spoke in disparaging tones of her establishment. She would ask her friends to take a cutlet with her, or to come and eat cold chicken with her after the play, but took good care that the menu should be of very different calibre. She, like Pansey Cottrell, was the fashion, and he knew it. Besides, ...
— Belles and Ringers • Hawley Smart

... that pup cares. He heads out for that stick of dynamite same as if for a veal cutlet, reaches it, grabs hold of it, an' starts back for shore, with the fuse sputterin' like hot grease. Blacklock heaves rocks at him like one possessed, capering an' dancing; but the pup comes right on. The Cock-eye can't stand it no longer, but lines out. But the pup's got ...
— A Deal in Wheat - And Other Stories of the New and Old West • Frank Norris



Words linked to "Cutlet" :   escallop, scollop, scallop, slice, piece



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