filigree
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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
Trina wears her wampum beads She fills her drawing book with line Sewing lace on widow’s weeds And filigree on leaf and vine.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2024
Your eye is drawn to the dazzling, filigree lace around the neck of the young woman.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2023
Cardan pulls a pin from his coat, a glittering, filigree thing in the shape of an acorn with an oak leaf behind it.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
The delicate items include Lucrezia Beerli-Bieler’s intricately cut filigrees, Kate Norris’s collages of wallpaper motifs and Ashley Chiang’s quilled mandala.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2020
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
A streetlamp casts a filigreed shadow in a beam of sunlight slanting into a deserted alley.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2023
His filigreed handiwork decorates hundreds of lowriders across Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2023
After flowering, the plants set an equally abundant crop of ballooning seedpods topped with a filigreed crown.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2022
In the pine-patched moonlight, the Queen Anne’s goblets looked for all the world like filigreed silver.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
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