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filigrain
or ھ··Ա
[ fil-i-greyn ]
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of filigrain1
1660–70; < French filigrane watermark, filigree < Italian filigrana < Latin ī-, combining form of īܳ thread + Բ, plural of Գܳ grain
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Around it and occupying the corners are a thousand specimens of wood, canes, fibres, seeds, gum, wax, resins, teas, hideous theatrical figures, savage weapons, rich fabrics, filigrain jewelry and tea-services.
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Well, with all these giant virtues, you can find room and time in your heart and occupations for harbouring and exercising what those monkeys of pretensions, the French, invented and called les petites morales, which were to supply society with filigrain duties, in the room of all virtues, which they abolished on their road to the adoption of philosophy and atheism.
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