Noun : a filigree of frost.    From Dictionary.com. 

These cups are inserted in filagree gold holders shaped somewhat like hour-glasses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Months in the Soudan] Reference

I'm hoping it will vine up the filagree on my porch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: My schedule] Reference

It's antique white gold filagree that is art deco in style.    From Wordnik.com.  [TTT (on time!)] Reference

The filagree shape of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge is discernable ten miles away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

The girl took up the crown, it glittered and was of delicate golden filagree work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Household Tales] Reference

"Oh," said Margaret, "she is after some foreign filagree work of hers, that's all.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Emilie the Peacemaker] Reference

Arabian arcades of open filagree work, supported by slender pillars of white marble.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number)] Reference

The Genoese jewellery is very beautiful, particularly the gold and silver filagree work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference

Stoutly resisting temptation, in the form of diamonds and rubies, Vendale bought a brooch of the filagree-work of.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Thoroughfare] Reference

Gold and silver filagree works they excel in; gunpowder is manufactured at Pontiana; brass cannon is cast at Borneo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference

And Fleur, always at the back of his thoughts, started out like a filagree figure from a clock when the hour strikes.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Let] Reference

I have a group of assistants who do much of the background and filagree work and I concentrate on the core of the painting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

They have a delicate filagree of intramuscular fat that melts when cooked and makes the absolute most tender, juicy, flavorful meats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meathead Goldwyn: Barbecue & Grilling Holiday Gift Guide] Reference

My favourite shoes were a pair of black suede pumps with four-inch heels, and this very cool and elegant gold filagree stuff on the heels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tastes and Fantasies] Reference

Their cimeters were of the keenest Damascus blades, with sheaths richly wrought and enamelled, and belts of golden filagree studded with gems.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alhambra] Reference

We sat in the well-remembered room, where green tea and mint were served in a beautiful set of china-and-gold filagree cups, presented to him by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morocco] Reference

The jewellers still excel in gold and silver filagree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference

"But we can't afford to pay for much extra polish and (sic) filagree work.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper] Reference

And others carried a coffee tray, upon which were cups of elegant filagree work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series] Reference

Gold thread work in spiral forms has very much the effect of filagree in gold wire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery] Reference

They are the paint - the stucco - the filagree-work of the edifice, but not the building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country life in Georgia in the days of my youth,] Reference

A comb, of filagree silver, strikingly lovely in her dark hair, was her only ornament except.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Rose and Silver] Reference

It is of good workmanship, in imitation of filagree, and interlaced with inscriptions in copper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

But Genoa's greatness has degenerated into an unostentatious commerce in velvets and silver filagree-work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Innocents Abroad] Reference

The color, not undecided in tone as other blond hair, sparkled to the light like a filagree of burnished gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beatrix] Reference

Vespasian was the first who dedicated crowns of cinnamon, inclosed in gold filagree, in the Capitol and the Temple of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson] Reference

Those memoirs are charming of their kind, and if life were cut in filagree paper would be profitable reading to the soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)] Reference

After which they advanced and kissed the Cross and Gospels, which were covered with most minute silver and gold filagree work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844.] Reference

And, dear Margaret, the rimy trees were now all like pyramids of golden filagree, and lace, cobweb fine, in the red firelight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cloister and the Hearth] Reference

They were generally made of osiers and reeds, but sometimes of more valuable materials, such as silver, perhaps in filagree work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII] Reference

Petitot, his highly prized 'brown-biscuit teapots, filagree - worked,' his citron morocco letter-case, and his 'pomona-green' chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intentions] Reference

I also presented the nurse with a brooch of gold filagree work, which I had brought home with me from Portugal, intending to give it to my mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lalage's Lovers] Reference

"Nay, what is it, trow?" inquired Kate, who looked with deep interest through the interstices of the filagree, and saw nothing but a few inches of coarse linen thread.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century] Reference