单词 | filigree |
释义 | 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 Corpusfiligree• Ahead 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 |
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