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▪ I. filigrane, n.|ˈfɪlɪgreɪn|
Forms: α. 7–9 filigrain(e, fillagreen, (7 filagram, fil'gran, filegreen, filograin, 8 filagrain, -green), 8 filigreen, filligrane, -grean, -green, 8– filigrane. β. 7 philigrin, 7–8 philagrain, -green, -grin.
[a. Fr. filigrane (in 17th c. often -gramme), ad. It. filigrana, f. L. fīlum thread and grānum grain.]
1. = filigree n. 1.
1668Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 10 A cabinet of cristall and philigrin. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 183 As if it had been wrought in Filograin. 1682Lond. Gaz. No. 1721/1 Coco-nut Cups set in Fillagreen. 1713Phil. Trans. XXVIII. 226 Their Embroiderers work in Filigreen very curiously. 1794W. Combe Boydell's Thames I. 90 Taste has run into the contrary extreme of frippery and filigrane. 1850Longfellow Blind Girl of Castèl-Cuillè iii. 68 The crown of filigrane suspended from the low-arched portal.
b. transf. esp. of architectural ornament.
1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Caramel, The Sugar thickens and..a kind of curious Filigreen or Net-work, will be form'd. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) I. 194 For airy towers of almost filigraine we have none to be compared with those of Rheims. 1775― Let. to Sir H. Mann 22 Apr., Adam, our most admired, is all gingerbread, filigraine, and fan-painting.
2. attrib. = filigree 2. Also filigrane-work = filigree-work.
1680Ashmole Diary 358 A gold chain..composed..of philagreen links in great knobs. 1687E. Browne Trav. (ed. 2) 147 A curious Filegrane Handkerchief, and two fair Filegrane Plates. a1689A. Behn Novels (1722) II. 194 This case shall be..like those delicate ones of Filligrin Work, which do not hinder the sight. 1690Songs Costume (Percy Soc.) 194 In filgran casset. 1696tr. Du Mont's Voy. Levant x. 122 A golden Sun of Filagram-Work. 1710Steele Tatler No. 245 ⁋2 A small Cabinet..in which were..several Filagrain Curiosities. 1715tr. Mad. D'Anois' Wks. 416 All in large Flaskets of Filagreen Gold. 1742Mrs. Delany Autobiog. (1861) II. 169 A fine present in a large filligrane silver box. 1753Hogarth Anal. Beauty viii. 96 The great number of its filligreen ornaments. 1786tr. Beckford's Vathek (1823) 67 Drawing from a fillagreen urn, a parchment. 1847Ansted Anc. World viii. 144 Their edges appear like golden filigrane-work.
▪ II. † ˈfiligrane, v. Obs.
= filigree v. Hence † ˈfiligraned ppl. a.
1690Evelyn Fop's Dict., Fil-grain'd, Dressing-boxes..or whatever else is made of silver wire-work. |