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

n. An intricate, delicate, or fanciful ornamentation.

n. A design resembling such ornamentation: filigrees of frosting on a cake.

v. To decorate with or as if with filigree.

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

n. A design resembling such intricate ornamentation.

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

n. 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.

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

n. 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.

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

n. 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.

To ornament with filigree-work.

v. make filigree, as with a precious metal

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

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filigreed    filigreeing    filigrees   

craft    embellishment   

unsubstantial    wirework   

scrollwork    jeweled    rhinestone    opal    moonstone    Givenchy    cut glass    turquoise    sapphire    cinnabar