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noun
1.
delicate ornamental work of fine silver, gold, or other metal wires, especially lacy jewelers' work of scrolls and arabesques.
2.
anything very delicate or fanciful: a filigree of frost.
adjective
3.
composed of or resembling filigree.
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Filigree
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verb (used with object)
4.
to adorn with or form into filigree.
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Example Sentences
- To surf, a small verb lacking filigree or urgency, belongs to magical realism as much as to sport.
- Kergall suggests a filigree support with an art nouveau look and sketches it out.
- There are no statues, no elaborate filigree and few images.
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Word Origin & History
filigree
1690s, shortening of filigreen (1660s), from Fr. filigrane "filigree," from It. filigrana, from L. filum "thread" + granum "grain." Related: Filigreed.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia
filigree
delicate, lacelike ornamental openwork composed of intertwined wire threads of gold or silver, widely used since antiquity for jewelry. The art consists of curling, twisting, or plaiting fine, pliable metal threads and soldering them at their points of contact with each other and, if there is one, with the metal groundwork.
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