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beef wellington

beef wellington is the alternative letter-case form of beef Wellington.

Noun capitalized: beef Wellington

beef Wellington (countable and uncountable, plural beef Wellingtons)

  1. A fillet of beef tenderloin steak coated with pâté de foie gras and a duxelles of mushrooms, wrapped in puff pastry and baked.
    • The charges against Ms. Patterson stemmed from a lunch party nearly two years ago in the rural town of Leongatha, at which she cooked and served beef Wellington.2025 July 7, Victoria Kim, Livia Albeck-Ripka, “Erin Patterson Is Found Guilty of Murder in Australia Mushroom Poisoning Case”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2025

Forms of beef wellington

pluralbeef wellingtons
pluralbeef Wellingtons
alternative formbeef wellington

Origin of beef wellington

Named after an unknown person. There is no definite connection to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.

Words formed from beef wellington

Questions about beef wellington

What does beef wellington mean?
Beef wellington means a fillet of beef tenderloin steak coated with pâté de foie gras and a duxelles of mushrooms, wrapped in puff pastry and baked.
What is beef wellington the alternative letter-case form of?
Beef wellington is the alternative letter-case form of beef Wellington.
What part of speech is beef wellington?
Beef wellington is a noun.
What is the plural of beef wellington?
The plural of beef wellington is beef wellingtons.

Words near beef wellington in the dictionary

  1. beef tomato
  2. beef tomatoes
  3. beef trust
  4. beef trusts
  5. beef up
  6. beef wellington
  7. beef Wellingtons
  8. beef-brained
  9. beef-house
  10. beef-houses
  11. beef-witted

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: beef wellington (page history and authors); beef Wellington (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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