Definition of filigreed
: decorated with ornamental openwork of delicate or intricate design : adorned with filigree
- a filigreed gold pendant
- Darting down the corridor to a wood-fired samovar tucked in a cupboard, she reappeared moments later carrying glasses in filigreed silver holders and teabags of Siberian milk tea, thick, fragrant and soothing.
- —David A. Andelman
- He has a skeptically friendly, mildly ironic conversational manner and a droll, filigreed [=ornate] prose style.
- —Mark Singer
