Definition of noisette
:a small piece of lean meat
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A lean piece of beef is cooked in a pan of sizzling butter and comes out perfectly tender, served with an indulgent beurre noisette.
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Origin and Etymology of noisette
French, diminutive of nois choice cut of meat, literally, nut, from Old French, from Latin nux — more at nut
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