noun. Delicate and intricate ornamental work made from gold, silver, or other fine twisted wire.

noun. undefined

noun. An intricate, delicate, or fanciful ornamentation.

noun. A design resembling such ornamentation.

transitive verb. To decorate with or as if with filigree.

To ornament with filigree-work.

noun. Ornamental work consisting of fine gold, silver, or sometimes copper wire, formed into delicate tracery of scrolls, network, and the like, or of minute grains or plates of metal soldered to a background, or of both combined.

noun. Any kind of ornamental openwork resembling or analogous to filigree.

noun. Hence Figuratively, anything very delicate, light, and fanciful or showy in structure; especially, anything too delicately formed to be serviceable; something easily destroyed or injured.

Composed of filigree: as, a filigree brooch.

noun. Ornamental work, formerly with grains or breads, but now composed of fine wire and used chiefly in decorating gold and silver to which the wire is soldered, being arranged in designs frequently of a delicate and intricate arabesque pattern.

adjective. Relating to, composed of, or resembling, work in filigree. Hence: Fanciful; unsubstantial; merely decorative.

noun. A delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver (or sometimes other metal) twisted wire.

noun. A design resembling such intricate ornamentation.

verb. To decorate something with intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire.

verb. make filigree, as with a precious metal

noun. delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire)

"Also decorated with filigree is the familiar introit, In medio ecclesie, in which the initial I is inhabited by ten scenes from the life of John the Evangelist. 136"

craft  embellishment  

Etruscan  Givenchy  cameo  cinnabar  cut glass  

arabesque  basketry  basketwork  bead  bejewel  

filigreed  filigreeing  filigrees