ˈfiligree-ˌwork
[f. filigree n. + work.]
1. Work in filigree.
| 1773 Gentl. Mag. XLIII. 433 A thick board cut through like filligree-work. 1848 Lytton Harold i. i, An uncut jewel, set in Byzantine filagree work. |
| fig. 1818 Hazlitt Eng. Poets iv. 96 The Rape of the Lock..the most exquisite specimen of filigree work ever invented. |
2. transf. Stone-work resembling filigree.
| 1790 Pennant London (1813) 94 Quatre-foils of philligree-work. 1857 H. Miller Test. Rocks i. 38 Columns of an elder Alhambra, roughened with..exquisite filagree work. |