FILIGREE


Meaning of FILIGREE in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Ahead of me was a chancel screen, a filigree of Gothic tracery.

Bold blue cones surmount an extravagant collar of prickly blue bracts with filigree appendages.

It can be engraved, embossed, covered with filigree wire, enamelled, patinated and plated.

She had the diamond, which is surrounded by small white diamonds in a yellow-gold filigree setting, made into a stickpin.

The delicate gold filigree , the massive red gems.

The melody was free of clutter, without filigree , stripped to its barest line.

There were grinning gnomes worked into the iron filigree , running downwards helter-skelter.

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