filagree

[ fil-uh-gree ]

/ ˈfɪl əˌgri /

filigree.

Words nearby filagree

fiji islands, fijian, fikh, fil, filaceous, filagree, filament, filamentary, filamentous, filar, filaria

I thought I beheld in a dream a filagree work suspended by fairies in the air.

Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829. |Hermann Pckler-Muskau
The color, not undecided in tone as other blond hair, sparkled to the light like a filagree of burnished gold.

Beatrix |Honore de Balzac
He held a wand of silver covered with elegant tracery and topped in filagree.

The Captain of the Janizaries |James M. Ludlow
Those memoirs are charming of their kind, and if life were cut in filagree paper would be profitable reading to the soul.

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) |Frederic G. Kenyon

She moved with the last word and saw Stanief; a tall, soldierly presence in the filagree room.

The Game and the Candle |Eleanor M. Ingram

filagree

/ (ˈfɪləˌɡriː) /

a less common variant of filigree