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

The fillagree box was a fort of night-mare to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales] Reference

Yes! even though the fillagree box had been shown off and admired.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales] Reference

They are also decorated with fillagree work, and tinsel of various colours.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One] Reference

But the thought of the fillagree box by degrees took possession of her mind and rankled there as before.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales] Reference

But not all the peppermint-drops in a chymist's shop could take away the taste of the fillagree-box from Julia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales] Reference

On the toilette beside, stood an old-fashioned mirror, in a fillagree frame, part of the dispersed finery of the neighbouring castle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference

She too had a Governess, and many lessons to learn and much to do, and she did them; but neither English history nor French fairy tales could quite drive away the fillagree box.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales] Reference

Well, she amused herself tolerably in spite of the visions of the fillagree box and the queen's hair, which now and then came between her and her usual feeling of self-satisfaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales] Reference

Lucy directly drew her work table near her and reseated herself with an alacrity and cheerfulness which seemed to infer that she could taste no greater delight than in making a fillagree basket for a spoilt child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sense and Sensibility] Reference

The fillagree, with its narrow, dark glossy-green leaves; the privet, with its modest white blossoms and purple berries; the lignum-vitae, with its strong resinous odour; the burnet-rose, and a great variety of elegant unknowns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roughing It in the Bush] Reference

An elegant silver work-basket in fillagree for Charlotte Aimsworth, decorated within by trinkets of female use; a watch with costly trappings for "his Marianne;" and a purse containing more gold than she had ever seen in her life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unexpected Legacy] Reference

One of the ladies told her that her little girl should bring to shew her a most beautiful gold fillagree work-box set with precious stones, which one of the maids of honour about court, who was her godmother, had given her a few days before.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales] Reference

So now you see this triumph of simplicity over art, despoiled the fillagree box of all its horrors, for the innocent children admired her shells yet more -- unsophisticated, and insensible to the long story about the value of the rubies, the maid of honour, and even the queen's hairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales] Reference

I remarked many of our favourite garden shrubs among these wildings of nature: the fillagree, with its narrow, dark glossy-green leaves; the privet, with its modest white blossoms and purple berries; the lignum-vitae, with its strong resinous odour; the burnet-rose, and a great variety of elegant unknowns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roughing It in the Bush] Reference

We had a concert of admirable music at the house of our new acquaintance, in the evening, and were introduced by his means to many people of fashion; the ladies were pretty, and dressed with much taste; no caps at all, but flowers in their heads, and earrings of silver fillagree finely worked; long, light, and thin: I never saw such before, but it would be an exceeding pretty fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I] Reference

Have the kindness to call at Ruffoni’s shop, in Via de’ Matti, and tell him to send me, as soon as possible, a fillagree pair of breeches of the first quality.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn] Reference

There was something outré in this man’s affectations, and his eternal reference to his fillagree-buttons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paris Lions and London Tigers] Reference

"I am glad," said Lady Middleton to Lucy, "you are not going to finish poor little Annamaria's basket this evening; for I am sure it must hurt your eyes to work fillagree by candlelight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sense and Sensibility] Reference

"At length my eyes, in going the circuit of the room, fell upon a trumpery fillagree card-rack of pasteboard, that hung dangling by a dirty blue ribbon, from a little brass knob just beneath the middle of the mantel-piece.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2] Reference

This hint was enough, Lucy recollected herself instantly and replied, "Indeed you are very much mistaken, Lady Middleton; I am only waiting to know whether you can make your party without me, or I should have been at my fillagree already.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sense and Sensibility] Reference

«i, li carvings, not unlike fillagree work, in fpiiai -. of very curious workmanlliip, the extremities whereof vorc dofed with a figure that torined the head of the vellcl, in which were two monflrous eyes of moth 'r of pnri, and a large fliapcd tongue; and as it defccndcd it Hill retained the figure of a monrtcr, with hands and feet carved upon it very neatly, and painted red.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world, undertaken and performed by royal authority [microform] : containing an authentic, entertaining, full, and complete history of Captain Cook's first, second, third and last voyages, undertaken by order of his present Majesty, for making discoveries in geography, navigation, astronomy, &c. in the southern and northern hemispheres & c. &c. &c. ... the whole comprehending a full account, from the earliest period to the present time ...] Reference

C. (573) Commonly called fillagree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference