beef wellington

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   rare-roasted beef tenderloin coated with mushroom paste in puff pastry

   Synonymsfilet de boeuf en croute

   Broaderdish

Questions about beef wellington

What does beef wellington mean?

beef wellington means "rare-roasted beef tenderloin coated with mushroom paste in puff pastry".

What is another word for beef wellington?

Close synonyms include filet de boeuf en croute. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is beef wellington a common word?

beef wellington is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.