Meanings
plural fillagrees
- archaiccountableuncountableArchaic form of filigree.
Donna Margaretta's cup was of exquisitely painted china, and placed on a small silver stand wrought in filagree.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 101 more example
[…] his precious helpmate sat grinning at the mischief she had occasioned, like an idiot, asking Colonel Lamborn to help her to some of them there thingumbobs out of the silver what-d’ye-call’um. These thingumbobs happened to be no other than a service of West India sweetmeats in a superb fillagree epergne, […]
1810, [anonymous] […], chapter XXVIII, in Splendid Follies. A Novel, […]. Founded on Facts., volume III, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, page 129
Synonyms & antonyms
noundelicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire)
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