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filagree

filagree is the alternative form of filigree.

Meaning of filigree

Noun

filigree (countable and uncountable, plural filigrees)

  1. A delicate and intricate ornamentation made from platinum, gold or silver (or sometimes other metal) twisted wire.
    • To carry pure death in an earring, a casket, / A signet, a fan-mount, a filigree basket!1844, Robert Browning, The Labratory
  2. (broadly) Anything resembling such intricate ornamentation.
    • But why speak about her? It is probable that we shall not hear of her again from this moment to the end of time, and that when the great filigree iron gates are once closed on her, she and her awful sister will never issue therefrom into this little world of history.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 1, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

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Forms of filagree

Noun
pluralfilagrees
Verb
third-person singular presentfilagrees
present participlefilagreeing
past participlefilagreed
pastfilagreed

Questions about filagree

What is filagree the alternative form of?
Filagree is the alternative form of filigree.

Words near filagree in the dictionary

  1. filacers
  2. Filadelfia
  3. filafel
  4. filaggrin
  5. filaggrins
  6. filagree
  7. filagreed
  8. filagreeing
  9. filagrees
  10. Filaidhoo
  11. filakta

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