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noun a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef
noun a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish
noun a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus
originFrom Middle English filet, vylette, felet, filette, flette, from Old French filet, diminutive of fil (“thread”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”).
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