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Webster 1913 Edition

Filigrane

{

Fil′i-grain

,

Fil′i-grane

}
,
Noun.
[Sp.
filigrana
(cf. It.
filigrana
, E.
filigrane
), fr. L.
filum
a thread +
granum
grain. See
File
a row, and
Grain
, and cf.
Filigree
.]
Filigree.
[Archaic]
With her head . . . touches the crown of
filigrane
.
Longfellow.

Webster 1828 Edition

Filigrane

FIL'IGRANE

,
Noun.
sometimes written filigree. [L. filum, a thread, and granum, a grain.]
A kind of enrichment on gold and silver, wrought delicately in the manner of little threads or grains, or of both intermixed.

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