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filigrees

filigrees is the plural of filigree.

filigrees is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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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Questions about filigrees

What is filigrees the plural of?
Filigrees is the plural of filigree.

Words near filigrees in the dictionary

  1. filigranes
  2. filigree
  3. filigree skimmer
  4. filigreed
  5. filigreeing
  6. filigrees
  7. filiment
  8. filin
  9. filindeu
  10. filing
  11. filing away

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