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filigree

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++fil·i·gree /ˈfɪləɡriː/ noun [uncountable]  DECORATEdelicate designs or decorations made of gold or silver wire 金银丝细工饰品 silver filigree jewellery 银丝细工珠宝
Examples from the Corpus
filigreeAhead of me was a chancel screen, a filigree of Gothic tracery.The delicate gold filigree, the massive red gems.She had the diamond, which is surrounded by small white diamonds in a yellow-gold filigree setting, made into a stickpin.There were grinning gnomes worked into the iron filigree, running downwards helter-skelter.Bold blue cones surmount an extravagant collar of prickly blue bracts with filigree appendages.It can be engraved, embossed, covered with filigree wire, enamelled, patinated and plated.The melody was free of clutter, without filigree, stripped to its barest line.
Origin filigree (1600-1700) French filigrane, from Latin filum thread + granum grain
fil·i·gree nounChineseSyllable
of or decorations delicate wire or silver Corpus gold made designs


filigree
filigree /ˈfɪləɡriː, ˈfɪlɪɡriː/ noun [uncountable]
 Date: 1600-1700
 Language: French
 Origin: filigrane, from Latin filum __thread__ + granum __grain__
delicate designs or decorations made of gold or silver wire:
    silver filigree jewellery


fili·greeBrE /ˈfɪlɪɡriː/ 🔊NAmE /ˈfɪlɪɡriː/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] delicate decoration made from gold or silver wire 金银丝饰品