NOUN
- delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire)
How To Use filagree In A Sentence
- They have a delicate filagree of intramuscular fat that melts when cooked and makes the absolute most tender, juicy, flavorful meats. Meathead Goldwyn: 12 Great Christmas Gifts for the Barbecue Lover
- There was something, too, of the frost-work's evanescent spiritual quality in the scene -- as though at any moment, with a puff of the balmy summer wind, the radiant glade, the hovering figure, the filagreed silver of the entire setting would melt into the accustomed stern and menacing forest of the northland, with its wolves, and its wild deer, and the voices of its sterner calling. The Blazed Trail
- Hundreds of delicate columns of white marble, filagreed and inlaid with gold and mosaics, and with exquisite capitals, rose before me on all sides, which, with the fine tracery of the Gothic windows, formed a vista of perfect classic loveliness. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
- As a general thing, we have been shown through palaces by some plush-legged filagreed flunkey or other, who charged a franc for it; but after talking with the company half an hour, the Emperor of Russia and his family conducted us all through their mansion themselves. The Innocents Abroad
- * The term “Vandal,” he said, “best describes the roving, independent, free-and-easy character of that class of traveling Americans who are not elaborately educated, cultivated, and refined—and gilded and filagreed with the ineffable graces of the first society.” Mark Twain
- I wear my wedding ring and engagement ring on my right hand, on my left is an antique aquamarine ring that's all filagreed that my Dad gave to me. Katress Diary Entry
- The other, who was a Mede, differed scarcely in his dress from Pausanias himself, except that he was profusely covered with ornaments; his arms were decorated with bracelets, he wore earrings, and a broad collar of unpolished stones in a kind of filagree was suspended from his throat. Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance
- The dance group hated the opera and wanted to be performing their own work instead, where they were the entire focus of attention, rather than being filagree in a controversial opera about Palestinian terrorists murdering Leon Klinghoffer. Mark Morris and the Ravages of Time
- In a chamber whose dome was of gold-filagreed ivory, King Akhirom, clad in a white silken robe that made him look even more ghostly, sat cross-legged on a couch of gemmed ivory and stared at Rufia kneeling before him. Conan the Freebooter
- Close mountains green and dense with forest trees, their crests filagreed with redwoods. The Sisters-In-Law