The Collaborative International Dictionary
Filigrain \Fil"i*grain\, Filigrane \Fil"i*grane\, n. [Sp. filigrana (cf. It. filigrana, E. filigrane), fr. L. filuma thread + granum grain. See File a row, and Grain, and cf. Filigree.] Filigree. [Archaic]
With her head . . . touches the crown of filigrane.
--Longfellow.
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alt. (context obsolete English) filigree n. (context obsolete English) filigree
Usage examples of "filigrane".
When I went on board ship with the Bailo Jean Dona, I found another case given to me by him, containing two quintals of the best Mocha coffee, one hundred pounds of tobacco leaves, two large flagons filled, one with Zabandi tobacco, the other with camussa, and a magnificent pipe tube of jessamine wood, covered with gold filigrane, which I sold in Corfu for one hundred sequins.