Usually means: Delicate, intricate, ornamental metalwork art.
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  1. filigree: Merriam-Webster
  2. filigree: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. filigree: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. filigree: Collins English Dictionary
  5. filigree: Vocabulary.com
  6. Filigree, filigree: Wordnik
  7. filigree: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. filigree: Wiktionary
  9. filigree: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. filigree (filagree): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. filigree: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Filigree, filigree: Dictionary.com
  13. filigree: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Filigree: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. filigree: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. filigree: Rhymezone
  17. Filigree: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. filigree: FreeDictionary.org
  19. filigree: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. filigree: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. filigree: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  22. Filigree: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  23. filigree: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. filigree: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
  3. Beading Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. filigree: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. GLOSSARY OF JEWELRY-RELATED TERMS (No longer online)
  2. filigree: Pen Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (filigree)

▸ noun:  (chiefly jewelry) A delicate and intricate ornamentation made from platinum, gold or silver (or sometimes other metal) twisted wire.
▸ noun:  (by extension) Anything resembling such intricate ornamentation.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To decorate something with intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire.

Similar:
filagree, fillagree, filigrain, filigrane, French wire, frillwork, filament, fillet, parfilage, steel, more...

Opposite:
heavy, massive, solid

Phrases:
paper filigree, Filigree & Shadow, more...

Adjectives:
gold, delicate, silver, fine, golden, intricate, elaborate, gilded, exquisite, black, white

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     bronze,     copper,     platinum, more...


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Similar:
filagree, fillagree, filigrain, filigrane, French wire, frillwork, filament, fillet, parfilage, steel, more...

Opposite:
heavy, massive, solid

Phrases:
paper filigree, Filigree & Shadow, more...

Adjectives:
gold, delicate, silver, fine, golden, intricate, elaborate, gilded, exquisite, black, white

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     bronze,     copper,     platinum, more...



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