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filigree

[fil-i-gree] / ˈfɪl ɪˌgri /


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The first weeks of his second term, he put another piece of gold filigree above the door, and then it was between the paintings.

From Slate May 7, 2026

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 look of it reminded Ella of a jewelry box she'd spotted on Gran's dresser with writhing filigree, twisted threads of gold on its lid.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

Erhard Rom’s sets, too, strike a fine balance between caricatured opulence and comic minimalism — he projects elegant filigrees to fill parlor walls, streaks of marble to conjure a garden.

From Washington Post Mar. 13, 2022

Country filigrees are sometimes heard, but the music is mostly pop, with touches of soul and a bit of tango, plus a whole lot of disco.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2019

Her impassioned filigrees invited empathic responses from the choir, and found stalwart support from the event’s MC, the Rev James Cleveland.

From The Guardian Apr. 8, 2019

What the films provide, as compensation, is a banquet of the decent and the sumptuous, where filigrees of gold float through the air and land on the silk of a dress.

From The New Yorker Mar. 17, 2017

Lichens splotch the stone; leached minerals have left filigrees of stains.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

An obvious model for the film is “Babe,” but minus the droll wit, the inspired lunacy and the filigreed plot.

From The Wall Street Journal May 7, 2026

Williams first thought he might not have the energy or time to compose two hours of the kind of elaborate, filigreed orchestral music that is his provenance.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 14, 2023

After flowering, the plants set an equally abundant crop of ballooning seedpods topped with a filigreed crown.

From Seattle Times Nov. 12, 2022

Vieux Farka Touré has inherited his father's expressive, filigreed guitar phrasing; while Khruangbin are known for fusing elements of soul and blues with a globe-trotting blend of dub, Thai funk, cumbia and flamenco.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2022

Ser Loras Tyrell was slender as a reed, dressed in a suit of fabulous silver armor polished to a blinding sheen and filigreed with twining black vines and tiny blue forget-me-nots.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin




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