filagree

[fil-uh-gree]

noun

filagreed, filagreeing 

1. a less common variant of filigree.

filagree

/ ˈfɪləˌɡriː /

noun

1. a less common variant of filigree

Example Sentences

Judiciary Committee members in both parties should ask questions that probe the souls of nominees — simple, direct questions stripped of rhetorical filagree.

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Pouring out of the center of each blossom was a filagree of stamens, also creamy white.

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But opening one eye, the filagree of sunlight, sifting through the leaves, disclosed hundreds of worms letting themselves down by gossamer cables toward the earth.

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The royal apartments in Whitehall were completely mounted with hammered and filagree silver furniture in the seventeenth century.

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Many-coloured bandages wrapped the body in a close sheath; and the legs also were closely fastened together in a case of gold filagree.

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