Noah Webster
Filigrane
FIL'IGRANE, noun sometimes written filigree. [Latin 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.
FIL'IGRANE, noun sometimes written filigree. [Latin 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.