Definition of entrecôte in English:
entrecôte
nounˈɒntrəkəʊtˈɑntrəˌkoʊt
A boned steak cut off the sirloin.
Example sentencesExamples
- One man's drizzled is another man's bathed; a jus here is a sauce there; a Frenchman's entrecôte chasseur is a Rosbif's steak and mushrooms.
- On inspection it is probably a fore rib or classic French entrecôte, but the kitchen failing to notice this difference, or worse, to fob us off with an inferior cut, simply won't do.
- I did not have the heart to tell him that the latter pair had probably ended up as entrecôte on a menu in some foreign country.
- Over the course of a week, I sampled chopped reindeer, reindeer cutlets, reindeer entrecôte, reindeer with egg, reindeer without egg, reindeer sausage, and reindeer Stroganoff - all of it similarly gray and stringy.
- The other cut used for steaks is the entrecôte (literally, ‘between the ribs’).
Origin
French, from entre 'between' + côte 'rib'.
Definition of entrecôte in US English:
entrecôte
nounˈäntrəˌkōtˈɑntrəˌkoʊt
A boned steak cut off the sirloin.
Example sentencesExamples
- The other cut used for steaks is the entrecôte (literally, ‘between the ribs’).
- I did not have the heart to tell him that the latter pair had probably ended up as entrecôte on a menu in some foreign country.
- One man's drizzled is another man's bathed; a jus here is a sauce there; a Frenchman's entrecôte chasseur is a Rosbif's steak and mushrooms.
- On inspection it is probably a fore rib or classic French entrecôte, but the kitchen failing to notice this difference, or worse, to fob us off with an inferior cut, simply won't do.
- Over the course of a week, I sampled chopped reindeer, reindeer cutlets, reindeer entrecôte, reindeer with egg, reindeer without egg, reindeer sausage, and reindeer Stroganoff - all of it similarly gray and stringy.
Origin
French, from entre ‘between’ + côte ‘rib’.