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filigreefil‧i‧gree /ˈfɪləɡriː/ noun [uncountable] filigreeOrigin: 1600-1700 French filigrane, from Latin filum ‘thread’ + granum ‘grain’ - Ahead of me was a chancel screen, a filigree of Gothic tracery.
- Bold blue cones surmount an extravagant collar of prickly blue bracts with filigree appendages.
- It can be engraved, embossed, covered with filigree wire, enamelled, patinated and plated.
- She had the diamond, which is surrounded by small white diamonds in a yellow-gold filigree setting, made into a stickpin.
- The delicate gold filigree, the massive red gems.
- The melody was free of clutter, without filigree, stripped to its barest line.
- There were grinning gnomes worked into the iron filigree, running downwards helter-skelter.
delicate designs or decorations made of gold or silver wire: silver filigree jewellery |