Filigree

['fɪlɪɡriː] or ['fɪlɪɡri]

Definition

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

(verb.) make filigree, as with a precious metal.

Typist: Wolfgang--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

(a.) Relating to, composed of, or resembling, work in filigree; as, a filigree basket. Hence: Fanciful; unsubstantial; merely decorative.

Checker: Lorrie

Definition

n. a kind of ornamental metallic lacework of gold and silver twisted into convoluted forms united and partly consolidated by soldering—earlier forms Fil′igrain Fil′igrane.—adj. Fil′igreed ornamented with filigree.

Edited by Andrea