Filigree is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FILIGREE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to adorn with intricate ornamental work, also FILAGREE, FILLAGREE
• make filigree, as with a precious metal
• decorate with or as if with filigree
NOUN:
• ornamental work of fine (typically gold or silver) wire formed into delicate tracery
• delicate ornamental work of gold or silver wire
• 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.
• delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire)
ADJECTIVE:
• Relating to, composed of, or resembling, work in filigree; as, a filigree basket. Hence: Fanciful; unsubstantial; merely decorative.
• made of filigree

Words related to FILIGREE

filagree12 filigrain13 filigreed14 filigreeing16 filigrees13 fillagree13

Words that contain FILIGREE

filigreed14 filigrees13 filigreeing16

How to use FILIGREE in a sentence

• Where the earth ended was a fantastic filigree border, like the fancy paper with which our mothers used to line the pantry shelves.
• The first time we breakfast together at Magnolia Lawn I will wear it, fastened at the throat with that pretty little knot of silver filigree he gave me on my birthday.
• The casket was of filigree silver, about the size of a small tea-caddy, of oblong shape, and rounded at the top.
• Thirty years ago many stone draw plates were wanted, for then there was a great deal done in filigree gold jewelry.
• Nobody wants filigree gold jewelry any more, and there is so little demand for fine wire of the precious metals that few draw plates are desired.
• The slabs of alabaster, 12 by 8 feet in size, are pierced with filigree work finely finished as if they were intended to be worn as jewels upon the crown of an empress.
• On the toilet was a beautiful Venetian mirror, in a frame of silver filigree, and beside it stood a gold posset-dish to contain the night-draught.
• They are great experts in the making of Maltese lace, for which they have won a world-wide reputation, and their native filigree work is also very famous and very beautiful.
• A close waistcoat, without sleeves, but having a neck like a shirt, buttoned close up to the top, with buttons, often of gold filigree.
• Their earrings are mostly of gold filigree, and fastened not with a clasp, but in the manner of a rivet or nut screwed to the inner part.
• Patterns of the flowers or foliage, in which there is not very much variety, are prepared on paper, of the size of the gold plate on which the filigree is to be laid.
• The Chinese also make filigree, mostly of silver, which looks elegant, but wants likewise the extraordinary delicacy of the Malayan work.
• From the murky fissure, the eye saw, flung against the sky, the tangled filigree of his Moorish balconies.
• There were comfortable divans, and little tables, on which were displayed boxes of cigars and cigarettes, and egg-shell coffee-cups in filigree gold standards.
• But, despite their poverty, nearly all the women, the children as well as the grandmothers, wore silver earrings of pretty filigree.
• The twigs and leaves of olives overhead spread a filigree of moving shade upon their puckered faces.
• Furred fingers worked precious metals into invisible filigree for the collarpiece of a dancing doll.
• I smashed tools, filigree, jewels, stamping everything with my heavy boots.
• Around the cup is a band of fine filigree interlaced ornament in the form of panels divided by half beads of enamel.
• The shrine is made of bronze plates, to which gold filigree work and stones are riveted.
• In the first a few men were making ornaments of gold filigree, each man at a little bench by himself, and with a little shaded light.
• On each side of the apartment was a gallery for spectators, and a third, with a facade of gold filigree, was at one end, opposite an immense arch at the other.
• Under its open folds could be seen a violet jacket with buttons of filigree ivory.
• His short jacket and trousers were also of dark-blue velvet, the former decorated with buttons of silver filigree, the latter laced with silver cord over spotless linen.
• By night the Rue Chartres is now but a murky fissure, from which the groping wayfarer sees, flung against the sky, the tangled filigree of Moorish iron balconies.
• Money was wasted on useless turrets, filigree work, or machine-made ornamentation.

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