noun
cutlet
KUT-lit/ˈkʌtlət/
A thin, flat portion of meat or other food, often breaded and cooked.
A golden breaded cutlet sits beside a lemon.
Etymology
Costelette meant “little rib,” a diminutive of a word for “rib” or “side.” The meat name came to mean a small piece of meat, leading to the present sense of a thin slice.
In context
Hey kid have an original fried chicken cutlet!
More examples
- A thin veal cutlet cooked quickly in the pan.
- The café served a vegetable cutlet with salad.
- He flattened the cutlet before frying it.
Forms
cutlet · cutlets
Similar words
- fillet
- A fillet is a boneless portion; a cutlet is a thin portion often flattened or breaded.
- schnitzel
- Schnitzel is a particular breaded, fried cutlet; cutlet is the broader food term.