1. delicate ornamental work made from fine twisted wire, typically of gold or silver
2. anything delicate and intricate in design or structure
Usage: figurative

1. to decorate with or as if with filigree

Examples

• The antique jewelry box was adorned with delicate silver filigrees.
• Her grandmother’s earrings featured intricate gold filigrees.
• The cathedral windows displayed stone filigrees that cast beautiful shadows.
• Frost created natural filigrees on the windowpane.
• The artist filigrees each piece by hand using traditional techniques.
• Morning light revealed the spider web’s filigrees of dew.
• The metalworker filigrees the pendant with tiny silver wires.