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Definition: Filagree |
FilagreeNoun1. Delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "filagree" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1777. (references) |
Synonyms: FilagreeSynonyms: filigree (n), fillagree (n). (additional references) |
| Language | Translations for "filagree"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | филигран (filigree), изделие с нежен строеж (filigree). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ilagreefay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | filigrana (filigree). (various references) | |
Russian | филигранная работа (filigree). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | filigran (filigree). (various references) | |
Spanish | afiligranado (dainty, delicate). (various references) | |
Swedish | filigran (filigree). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | đ" v ng bạc chạm lộng vật sặc sỡ mảnh nhẹ (filigree). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "filagree": filagreed, filagreeing, filagrees. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-g-i-l-r" | |
-1 letter: filaree, fragile, leafier. | |
-2 letters: faerie, feriae, ferial, ferlie, galere, glaire, liefer, refile, regale, relief. | |
-3 letters: aerie, afire, agile, aglee, agree, argil, argle, ariel, eager, eagle, eagre, farle, feral, feria, filar, filer, flair, flare, fleer, flier, frail, glair, glare, grail, grief, lager, laree, large, leger, liege, lifer, liger, ragee, refel, regal, rifle. | |
-4 letters: agee, ager. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-g-i-l-r" | |
+1 letter: filagreed, filagrees, pilferage. | |
+2 letters: persiflage, pilferages. | |
+3 letters: farewelling, filagreeing, freelancing, freeloading, lifeguarded, persiflages, refrangible. | |
+4 letters: anglerfishes, featherlight, federalizing, festivalgoer, fiberglassed, fiberglasses, fibreglasses, irrefragable. | |
+5 letters: festivalgoers, flexographies. | |
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