CUTLET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cutlet mean? 

• CUTLET (noun)
  The noun CUTLET has 1 sense:

1. thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled

  Familiarity information: CUTLET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUTLET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

cutlet; escallop; scallop; scollop

Hypernyms ("cutlet" is a kind of...):

piece; slice (a serving that has been cut from a larger portion)

 Context examples 

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.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Young gentlemen is generally tired of beef and mutton: have a weal cutlet!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To atone for this conduct therefore, Elinor took immediate possession of the post of civility which she had assigned herself, behaved with the greatest attention to Mrs. Jennings, talked with her, laughed with her, and listened to her whenever she could; and Mrs. Jennings on her side treated them both with all possible kindness, was solicitous on every occasion for their ease and enjoyment, and only disturbed that she could not make them choose their own dinners at the inn, nor extort a confession of their preferring salmon to cod, or boiled fowls to veal cutlets.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

On one occasion, when an execution had just been put in, coming home through some chance as early as six o'clock, I saw her lying (of course with a twin) under the grate in a swoon, with her hair all torn about her face; but I never knew her more cheerful than she was, that very same night, over a veal cutlet before the kitchen fire, telling me stories about her papa and mama, and the company they used to keep.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I commanded him, in my deepest voice, to order a veal cutlet and potatoes, and all things fitting; and to inquire at the bar if there were any letters for Trotwood Copperfield, Esquire—which I knew there were not, and couldn't be, but thought it manly to appear to expect.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)