[f. as prec. + -ED1.]
1. Bound with or as with a fillet or fillets. Also, filleted about. Of a victim: Having the head bound with a fillet.
1604. Dekker, King’s Entert., Wks. 1873, I. 318. Enuy, vnhandsomely attirde all in blacke, her haire of the same colour, filletted about with snakes.
1638. Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 338. They weare their heare very long, and filleted.
1755. T. Amory, Mem. (1769), II. 221. When we drew open the coffin, we found the Mummy wrapped up in a gummed shroud, on which was painted a thousand hieroglyphics, and taking the fragments off, for it was all in pieces, had a sight of the filleted subject.
1768. Foote, Devil, I. Wks. 1799, II. 255. What, I suppose, you expected the quiver at my back, and the bow in my hand; the purple pinions, and filletted forehead; with the blooming graces of youth and of beauty?
1879. Browning, Pheidippides, 47.
| Vain was the filleted victim, the fulsome libation! Too rash | |
| Love in its choice, paid you so largely service so slack! |
2. Cookery. Cut into fillets.
1871. Daily News, 29 May. Dinner, which consisted of filleted soles, boiled chicken, and cold beef.
3. Marked or decorated with a fillet: see FILLET sb. senses 7, 9, 10 c.
1611. Cotgr., Vetade, the filletted Cockle.
1812–6. J. Smith, The Panorama of Science and Art, I. 149. All these kinds of piers have their shafts sometimes filleted, as are also often some of the architrave mouldings.
1880. Print. Trades Jrnl., XXX. 20. The binding will be artistic … filletted in gold, and lettered.
