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fillagree

British

/ ˈfɪləˌɡriː /

noun

a less common variant of filigree

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On the toilette beside, stood an old-fashioned mirror, in a fillagree frame, part of the dispersed finery of the neighbouring castle.

From The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott

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

The fillagree box was a fort of night-mare to her.

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

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

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