fillet – English noun declension

English noun forms of fillet

Noun: fillet
Singularfillet
Pluralfillets

Sample Sentences

  • In secret shadow, farre from all mens sight:
  • From her faire head her fillet she undight,
  • And laid her stole aside. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
  • A fillet binds her hair. [1713, [Alexander] Pope, Windsor-Forest. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:]
  • "Know thy own worth, and reverence the lyre," is a line that should be as a fillet bound round the brow—a philactory embroidered on the garments of every son and daughter of Adam distinguished by the possession of that sacred gift, which, whether used or abused, applauded in itself or derided in its possessor, is the highest and the most inalienable distinction humanity ever has or ever can be gifted with, whether bestowed on the highest or the humblest being, in the great mass to which we all belong. [1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 252:]
  • 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. [1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, Mew York, published 2007, page 42:]
  • Fillet of a Fenny Snake, / In the Cauldron boyle and bake: [c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 143, column 2:]
  • fillet steak
  • Fairer than gods and naked as the moon, The foamy fillets at their ankles strewn Less marble-white than they [1911, George Sterling, The Swimmers:]

Etymology

From Middle English filet, vylette, felet, filette, flette, from Old French filet, diminutive of fil (“thread”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”). See: Middle English Nouns 'filet', Latin Nouns 'fīlum'.