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Strips of meat, good French cuts (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ribbons

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'strips' is the definition.
(ribbon is a kind of strip)

'of meat good french cuts' is the wordplay.
'of meat' becomes 'ribs' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'good french' becomes 'bon' ('good' in French).
'cuts' is an insertion indicator (a group of letters 'cuts' into another word).
'ribs' going around 'bon' is 'RIBBONS'.

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(Other definitions for ribbons that I've seen before include "Narrow strips of material, for hair say" , "Narrow strips of fine material" , "Long strips, for the hair perhaps" , "Long narrow strips of material" .)

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