Filigree

Quick meaning: Filigree is a noun meaning (by extension) Anything resembling such intricate ornamentation.

Meaning

(by extension) Anything resembling such intricate ornamentation.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To decorate something with intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire.
2. (chiefly jewelry) A delicate and intricate ornamentation made from platinum, gold or silver (or sometimes other metal) twisted wire.

Example Sentences

To carry pure death in an earring, a casket, / A signet, a fan-mount, a filigree basket!

Her brown hair was waved in front and done up behind in a great twist, held by a tortoiseshell comb with gold filigree.

After that, having studied herself gravely in a long glass, she took from one of the drawers of her dressing-table a black leather card-case cornered in silver filigree, but found it empty.

[…] the repose of the pool, the idle motions of the insects and flies upon it, the placid waving of the flags, the leaf-skeletons, like Genoese filigree, placidly sleeping at the bottom, by their contrast with her own turmoil made her impatience greater.

Word Forms

• filigrees
• filagree
• fillagree
• filligree
• filigreeing
• filigreed

Synonyms for filigree

Depending on context, synonyms include filagree, fillagree.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include filagree, fillagree, watermark, interwoven, filigrain, filigrane.

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