fillagree

British  

/ ˈfɪləˌɡriː /

noun

1. a less common variant of filigree

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fillagree

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

From Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Sir John Barrow

Well, she amused herself tolerably in spite of the visions of the fillagree box and the queen's hair, which now and then came between her and her usual feeling of self-satisfaction.

From The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales by Mrs. Alfred Gatty

In China, the ladies had their needlework, their paint-boxes, their trinkets of ivory, of silver in fillagree, of mother-pearl, and of tortoise-shell.

From Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Sir John Barrow

They are also decorated with fillagree work, and tinsel of various colours.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

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

From The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales by Mrs. Alfred Gatty