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▪ I. filigree, filagree, n.|ˈfɪlɪgriː, -ˈəgriː|
Forms: α. 7–9 fillagree, 8–9 filligree, 7– filagree, 9 filigree. β. 8 phillagree, phil(l)igree, -grew.
[Abbreviated from filigreen: see filigrane.]
1. a. ‘Jewel work of a delicate kind made with threads and beads, usually of gold and silver’ (Encycl. Brit.).
1693Evelyn Diary 13 July, A cabinet of silver fillagree. 1721Lond. Gaz. No. 6014/3 Fine chac'd Philigrew and Houshold-Plate. 1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France I. 118 Ear-rings of silver fillagree finely worked. 1821Byron Juan iii. lxiii, Gold cups of filigree. 1821Scott Kenilw. vi, A beautiful Venetian mirror, in a frame of silver filigree.
transf.1873Browning Red Cott. Nt.-cap 69 Palace-panes Pinholed athwart their windowed filagree By twinklings sobered from the sun outside.
b. The art of making this work.
1800Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1801) IV. 366 Having her daughters taught French and filagree.
2. attrib. (= made of, or worked in, filigree); filigree glass (see quot.); filigree paper, paper work: see quot. 1960. Also filigree-work.
1747H. Walpole Let. to Conway 8 June, It is set in enamelled meadows, with phillagree hedges. 1779Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 299 Goldsmiths, who make filligree buttons. 1796M. Edgeworth Parent's Assist. (ed. 2) II. ii. 7 The shop where the filigree paper was to be bought. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian xi, Enclosed within a filigree screen of gold, lay the image of the saint. 1803Gent. Mag. in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1804) VII. 44 Fillagree tea-caddies. 1843Lytton Last Bar. ii. ii, A collar or necklace of uncut jewels set in filagree gold. 1872Yeates Techn. Hist. Comm. 264 Filigree glass..consisted of spirally-twisted white and coloured enamel glasses, cased in transparent glass. 1886Sheldon tr. Flaubert's Salammbô 4 Gold filigree baskets containing flowers. 1960H. Hayward Antique Coll. 117/2 Filigree paper work. Throughout the 18th cent. filigree was a popular amateur ornament for small cabinets... This was achieved solely with tiny rolls of paper.
Add:[1.] c. fig.
1871J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 244 The filigree of wire-drawn sentiment and supersubtilized conceit. 1916C. Aiken Jig of Forslin iii. iv. 69 For seven days my quill I dipt To wreathe slow filigrees of script. 1941W. de la Mare Bells & Grass 87 This lovely icy filigree! 1987Christian Sci. Monitor 8 May b10/3 Kadaif (a pastry filigree of honey, ground walnuts, and raisins).
▪ II. filigree, v.|ˈfɪlɪgriː|
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To ornament with filigree work, to work in filigree. Hence ˈfiligreed ppl. a.
1831E. J. Trelawny Adv. Younger Son lvi, A little filagreed basket of fruit. 1847Tait's Mag. XIV. 383 Vestiges of pre-Adamite existence found filagreed into fossils, or intaglioed on stones. 1872‘Mark Twain’ Innoc. Abr. xiv. 95 A domed and filagreed white temple..burst upon us. |