filigree
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Its wheels’ gold rims, capped with smiley faces, are emblazoned with the platitude “Where Dreams Are Made,” while the whole thing is ornamented with piped-icing filigree.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
Your eye is drawn to the dazzling, filigree lace around the neck of the young woman.
From BBC • Sep. 22, 2023
If, as the New York Times’ Amanda Hess argues, we live in the “golden age of celebrity branding,” liquor is the filigree on its balustrades, the inlay on its armoires, the leaf on its chandeliers.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2023
The Shang piece is surprisingly realistic but also elegantly decorative, covered in complex filigree.
From Washington Post • Apr. 4, 2023
A pale green curtain of branches just brushed the grasses and threw a filigree of shadows, as delicate as the wrought silver, on the child’s face.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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