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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tournedos

fillet of steak dish, 1877, from French, from tourner "to turn" (see turn (v.)) + dos "back." According to French etymologists, "so called because the dish is traditionally not placed on the table but is passed behind the backs of the guests" [OED]. But there are other theories.

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tournedos

n. filet mignon.

WordNet
tournedos

n. thick steak cut from the beef tenderloin

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Tournedos

Tournedos can refer to:

  • Tournedos (meat cut) , small round pieces of beef cut from the end portion of beef tenderloin, often cooked with bacon or lard.
  • Tournedos Rossini, a dish using this cut
  • Tournedos-Bois-Hubert, a commune in northern France
  • Tournedos-sur-Seine, a small town in northern France.

Usage examples of "tournedos".

She had dined out so seldom that she found this difficult, and when her companion suggested artichoke hearts with vinaigrette dressing for a start, followed by tournedos Rossini with new peas and new potatoes, she agreed happily and with relief.

He took her to Pennyhill Park, and once in the Latymer Room she was forced to admit to herself that the food on the menu looked tempting, and with almost no breakfast inside her, lunch was a must, and once started on delicious lobster patties, tournedos Rossini, and a delicious ice cream, she discovered that she was hungry after all.

Finally he ordered Tournedos Handyman for himself, and Lord Leakham ordered fish.

Discreet black-clad arms swooped down and removed the remains of the tournedos Henri IV, interrupting her train of thought for a moment.

After a full-scale nuptial Mass, the reception feast here would feature lobster, caviar, and tournedos Rossini, along with more down-home fare such as baked ziti and a complicated wedding soup only his sister-in-law Lolli, among her many virtues, knew how to make.

Saneerre nicely chilled, tournedos with insertions of pfit6 Strasbourg and a Nuits-Saint-Georges, asparagus with drawn butter, followed by a little Brie just properly flowing, and brandied cherries straight from the flames.

From crayfish to carp they progressed, from the richness of tournedos Rossini to the simplicity of chicken and cold asparagus with white and red wines of Neuchatel, and Reggie discoursed on their mild minor charms.

Fancy restaurants put smoked reindeer tongue on the menu next to the tournedos Rossini and pretend that they have come to terms with the endless lakes and forests that are buried silent and deep out there under the snow and ice.

On the eighteenth of September the fare had consisted of turtle soup, sauteed shrimp and mushrooms, grilled tournedos of beef, roasted guinea hen, rice and gravy, fresh green beans, with jam crepes and berry cobbler for dessert.

Cantonetti was admirably foiled by the tournedos, and after by a curious savoury mess of sweetbreads and chicken liver, and it was not until the end of the third glass when Joseph was superintending the presentation of the flat oat biscuits and the little round red cheese of the Danubian plain that Campion noticed anything odd about himself.

Hundreds of yards and hundreds of passengers away, Gwyn Barry, practically horizontal on his crimson barge, shod in prestige stockings and celebrity slippers, assenting with a smile to the coaxing refills of Alpine creekwater and sanguinary burgundy with which his various young hostesses strove to enhance his caviar tartlet, his smoked-salmon pinwheel and asparagus barquette, his prime fillet tournedos served on a timbale of tomato and a tapenade of Castilian olivesGwyn was in First.

What it was was that Clara worked her way back with the cocktails-she knew mine, an extra-dry martini with a twist of lemon-and I moved the papers out of her way out of politeness, and then she showed up with the hors d'oeuvres and I put them back in my bag out of hunger, and then I had to decide how I wanted my tournedos, and it took almost two hours for dinner, including the wine and the B & B.

He chose speckled river trout grilled on a wood fire, and tournedos broiled over charcoal with fennel and thyme.

She had cleared her palette into the crapper in Allie's house before they left for the restaurant, a second time after the fish course Armand had insisted they order between the appetizer and the main event--trout stuffed with cornmeal, oysters, and bacon on top of fried buffalo mozzarella on pizza-dough rounds--and now, yet again after consuming tournedos Rossini served with a generous side of spaghetti carbonara.