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fi·let
[fi-ley, fil-ey; Fr. fee-le] noun, plural fi·lets [fi-leyz, fil-az; Fr. fee-le] , verb (used with object) fillet (defs. 1, 10).
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filet
1841, reborrowing from Fr. of the same word that had been taken 14c. and Anglicized as fillet (q.v.). Filet mignon first recorded in Eng. 1906 in writings of O. Henry.
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