fillagree

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Noun

fillagree (countable and uncountable, plural fillagrees)

  1. Archaic form of filigree.
    • 1810,  , chapter XXVIII, in Splendid Follies. A Novel, . Founded on Facts., volume III, London: J F Hughes, , →OCLC, page 129:
      [] his precious helpmate sat grinning at the mischief she had occasioned, like an idiot, asking Colonel Lamborn to help her to some of them there thingumbobs out of the silver what-d’ye-call’um. These thingumbobs happened to be no other than a service of West India sweetmeats in a superb fillagree epergne, []
    • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Romance and Reality. , volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 10:
      Donna Margaretta's cup was of exquisitely painted china, and placed on a small silver stand wrought in filagree.