Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FIL'I-GRANE
FIL'I-FORMFIL'I-GRAN-ED, or FIL'I-GREED
FIL'I-GRANE, n.
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. Encyc.
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