Look up: filigree

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   Filigree
   Filigree is fine ornamental work of gold or silver wire, closely interlaced.
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   filigree
   [n] - delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire)
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   Filigree
   Inter weaved spirals of white,coloured and gold threads. Glass of this type first produced in Murano,Italy in the 16th century,remained popular since.
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   filigree
   Lace-like decoration made with fine gold or silver wire. It was widely used in Europe from the late 17thC on jewellery and for openwork panels set in boxes, baskets and cups. Birmingham was a manufacturing centre in the 18th and early 19th centuries but thereafter much filigree came from Malta, India and China.
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   Filigree
   Fil'i·gree noun [ Corrupted from filigrane .] Ornamental work, formerly with grains or breads, but now composed of fine wire and used chiefly in decorating gold and silver to which the wire is soldered, being arranged in designs frequently of a delicate and intricate arabesque pattern.
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   Filigree
   Fil'i·gree adjective Relating to, composed of, or resembling, work in filigree; as, a filigree basket. Hence: Fanciful; unsubstantial; merely decorative. « You ask for reality, not fiction and filigree work.» J. C. Shairp.
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   filigree
   filagree noun delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire)
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   filigree
   verb make filigree, as with a precious metal
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   Filigree
   `Filigree` (formerly written `filigrann` or `filigrane`; also known as `telkari` (the name given in `Anatolia`, meaning `wire work` and `cift-isi` (pronounced `chift-ishi`), meaning `tweezers work`) is a jewel work of a delicate kind made with twisted threads usually of gold and silver. It is now exceedingly common for ajoure work to be mislabelled as filigree. While both have many open areas, filigree involves threads being soldered together to ...
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    Filigree
    • (a.) Relating to, composed of, or resembling, work in filigree; as, a filigree basket. Hence: Fanciful; unsubstantial; merely decorative. • (n.) Ornamental work, formerly with grains or breads, but now composed of fine wire and used chiefly in decorating gold and silver to which the wire is soldered, being arranged in designs frequently...
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    filigree
    delicate, lacelike ornamental openwork composed of intertwined wire threads of gold or silver, widely used since antiquity for jewelry. The art ... [2 related articles]
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    filigree
    filigree 1. An ornamental work of fine wire. 2. Delicate and intricate ornamentation; usually, in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire. 3. Anything very delicate or fanciful; such as, a filigree of frost. Corrupted from filigrane, a kind of enrichment on gold and silver, wrought delicately in the manner of little threads or grains, or of both interm...
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    Filigree
    A decorative ornamentation that is often produced with fine wires of gold or silver.
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    Filigree
    Work composed of fine wires, coiled and assembled into open panels. Probably originating in the Orient, it became popular in Holland during the 17thC. Most English filigree-work of that time is probably the work of immigrant craftsmen.
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    filigree
    A string of bright points on the Sun's photosphere that are sometimes visible in intergranular lanes in continuum images; the smallest points are only about 150 km and last for less than half an hour. Filigrees are thought to be places where flux tubes penetrate the photosphere.
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    Filigree
    – a type of decoration on metalware made by use of fine wire, plain, twisted or plaited. The wire was usually of gold or silver and was used to form a delicate and intricate design. It was executed in tow styles: the wire was affixed by soldering to a metal base, this method having been used in Byzantine, Carolingian, Ottonian, Roman and Anglo-Saxon jewellery, and used later in the 13th century in...
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    filigree
    filigree (fil'igrē) , ornamental work of fine gold or silver wire, often wrought into an openwork design and joined with matching solder and borax under the flame of the blowpipe. Filigree is used as a decorative treatment for jewelry or other fine metalwork. It was made in ancient Egypt, ...
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