fillagree

/ ˈfɪləˌɡriː /

noun

The King was seated in a howdah of gold fillagree, on a colossal black elephant—a giant among elephants.

But the thought of the fillagree box by degrees took possession of her mind and rankled there as before.

But not all the peppermint-drops in a chymist's shop could take away the taste of the fillagree-box from Julia.

It is the most exquisite specimen of fillagree work ever invented.

Their trinkets of silver fillagree are extremely neat, and their articles of tootanague are highly finished.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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