[f. prec. sb.] trans. To ornament with filigree work, to work in filigree. Hence Filigreed ppl. a.
1831. Trelawny, Adv. Younger Son, III. xv. 118. A drink was brought, of iced water, with the compressed juice of the freshly plucked pomegranate; and a little filagreed basket of fruit and sweetmeats.
1847. Tait’s Mag., XIV. 383. Vestiges of pre-Adamite existences found filagreed into fossils, or intaglioed on stones.
1872. ‘Mark Twain,’ Innoc. Abr., xiv. 95. Suddenly a domed and filagreed white temple starred over and over and over again with brilliant gas-jets, burst upon us like a fallen sun.
