Word of the Week (WOW) is a weekly meme created by Heena Rathore P. It’s a fun way to improve vocabulary by learning new words every week.
To participate, simply do a post with your word and leave the link as a comment on Heena’s WOW post.
Here is my WOW for this week:
Word: Filigree
Part of Speech: Noun
Adjective: filigee or filigreed
Verb: filigrees, filigreeing, filigreed
Pronunciation: fil – i- gree (fili, gri)
Meaning:
1. Delicate ornamental work of twisted gold, silver or other wire, widely used since antiquity for jewellery
2. Any fanciful, delicate ornamentation (not only applicable to jewellery, as sentences below illustrate)
Synonyms:
wirework, lace, lacework, lattice, tracery, fret, fretwork, grillwork, threadwork
Antonyms:
None
Word Origin: C17 (1685-1695) from earlier filigreen -> from the French, filigraine -> from Latin filum (thread) + granum (grain)
Use in a sentence:
1. Mrs. Carmichael wore a beautiful filigree brooch. (Or, to use the adjective: Mrs Carmichael wore a beautiful brooch of filigreed gold.)
2. Sunlight filtered through the branches, casting filigree patterns on the earth beneath.
3. A shoal of tiny, colourful fish swam close to the reef , fins of intricate filagree.
4, The pine needles were draped with a delicate filigree of mist.
5. Filigrees of frost adorned the meadow.
I love this word and could spend some time writing several more sentences about filigrees of frosting on cakes, or various objects decorated with jewels and filigree. But I think I’ve said more than enough already . . .
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Millie Thom 
as i head out for a cycle
this presentation
filagrees my smile 🙂
That’s a lovely extra sentence. Thank you for that, Smilecalm. 🙂
Interesting information on WOW. Somewhere I have taken a photo of a leave in fine filigree. I’ll have a look and see if I can find it and put it in a post!
Thank you! That would be great to see..
What a beautiful and somehow a delicate word… 🙂 I really like it.
I love this prompt, thanks for participating Millie… I’m learning so many brilliant words from you 😀
And the Chinese lanterns are adorable, great examples.
I agree, Heena, it is a delicate word and it has so many different applications. I love it, too. I also thought the Chinese lantern picture was lovely. Thank you for liking my post. 🙂
A beautiful word for me who loves filigree! In fact, how can we not love beautiful filigree? 😛 Well done Millie! 😉
I agree, Khloe, filigee is beautiful and so delicate I have a gold filigreed bracelet, bought in Malta, and it’s very pretty. Needless to say, I rarely wear it. My husband bought it for me – but I’m really not the jewellery type! Ha! I occasionally use the word to describe other things besides jewellery in my writing. 🙂
Aww how sweet your husband is! I’m sure it looks stunning 😉 Don’t worry! You can still keep it to remind yourself of the lovely time you had with your husband in Malta 😉
never before come across that one 🙂
Well, Heath, I’m glad I’ve found at least one word in the dictionary that you didn’t know! Your vocabulary is so vast! Perhaps you could make use of this one in one of your lovely poems. 🙂