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n.
1. Delicate and intricate ornamental work made from gold, silver, or other fine twisted wire.
2.
a. An intricate, delicate, or fanciful ornamentation.
b. A design resembling such ornamentation: filigrees of frosting on a cake.
tr.v. fil·i·greed, fil·i·gree·ing, fil·i·grees
To decorate with or as if with filigree.
[Alteration of French filigrane, from Italian filigrana : Latin f
lum, thread; see gwh- in Indo-European roots + Latin gr
num, grain; see g
-no- in Indo-European roots.]
Kristin would look good in earrings made of silver filigree.
lum, thread; see gwh- in Indo-European roots + Latin grnum, grain; see g-no- in Indo-European roots.]Kristin would look good in earrings made of silver filigree.
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