beef Wellington
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- noun
- /biːf ˈwɛlɪŋtən/
:
filete Wellington
- I finally learned how to make beef Wellington with mushroom duxelles and a crispy puff pastry crust.
- serve beef Wellington
Examples
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Beef Wellington at Sir Winston's
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Oh, Mum, we had a choice between fish and Beef Wellington.
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I wanted to dazzle you guys with beef Wellington.
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A nice demi on top of Beef Wellington.
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Mini Beef Wellington with Horseradish Sauce
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Sir Winston's is known for its Beef Wellington, which is also the captain's favorite.
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Last night, we enjoyed a delicious beef Wellington for dinner, which was perfectly cooked and wrapped in flaky pastry.
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The restaurant's special for the evening was beef Wellington, served with a side of roasted vegetables.
Synonyms
A piece of beef cooked rare, covered in mushroom paste and wrapped in pastry
How Elaborate
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound clearly signals 'beef' (meat) combined with an eponym 'Wellington', so a learner who knows the words can reasonably infer it is a particular beef dish named after a person/place. However the detailed preparation (puff pastry, mushroom paste, rare roasting) is not derivable from the constituents and requires cultural/culinary knowledge, making the relation only partial.
Etymology
Beef Wellington may be named after the Duke of Wellington. One popular story says cooks wrapped a piece of beef in pastry to make it look fancy for the Duke, so today Beef Wellington means 'beef wrapped in pastry and baked'.