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Plural of filigree

regular plural

The plural of filigree is filigrees.

Forms of filigree

Singularfiligree /ˈfɪl.ɪ.ɡɹiː/
Pluralfiligrees
Countablecountable and uncountable

Filigrees in a sentence

  • I'm riddled at the hips and knees, roundsided as parentheses since my shrunken spine has known osteoporosis and my extremities have shriveled into lacy filigrees, breakable as glass on stone.1997, The American Scholar - Volume 66, page 120. From the entry roundsided

Meaning of filigree

  1. noun A delicate and intricate ornamentation made from platinum, gold or silver (or sometimes other metal) twisted wire.
  2. noun Anything resembling such intricate ornamentation.
  3. verb To decorate something with intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire.

Full definition of filigree

Questions about the plural of filigree

What is the plural of filigree?
The plural of filigree is filigrees.
Is filigree countable?
Filigree is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: filigree (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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