Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
filigree .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun variant spelling of
filigree .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire)
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Examples
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On the toilette beside, stood an old-fashioned mirror, in a fillagree frame, part of the dispersed finery of the neighbouring castle.
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Reason, — to-day, pasteboard and fillagree, and ending to-morrow in madness and murder.
An Address 2006
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The fillagree, with its narrow, dark glossy-green leaves; the privet, with its modest white blossoms and purple berries; the lignum-vitae, with its strong resinous odour; the burnet-rose, and a great variety of elegant unknowns.
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All attempts to contrive a system are as cold as the new worship introduced by the French to the goddess of Reason, -- to-day, pasteboard and fillagree, and ending to-morrow in madness and murder.
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I remarked many of our favourite garden shrubs among these wildings of nature: the fillagree, with its narrow, dark glossy-green leaves; the privet, with its modest white blossoms and purple berries; the lignum-vitae, with its strong resinous odour; the burnet-rose, and a great variety of elegant unknowns.
Roughing It in the Bush Susanna Moodie 1844
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So now you see this triumph of simplicity over art, despoiled the fillagree box of all its horrors, for the innocent children admired her shells yet more -- unsophisticated, and insensible to the long story about the value of the rubies, the maid of honour, and even the queen's hairs.
The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales Alfred Gatty 1841
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One of the ladies told her that her little girl should bring to shew her a most beautiful gold fillagree work-box set with precious stones, which one of the maids of honour about court, who was her godmother, had given her a few days before.
The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales Alfred Gatty 1841
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The fillagree box was a fort of night-mare to her.
The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales Alfred Gatty 1841
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But not all the peppermint-drops in a chymist's shop could take away the taste of the fillagree-box from Julia.
The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales Alfred Gatty 1841
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Yes! even though the fillagree box had been shown off and admired.
The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales Alfred Gatty 1841
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