filigree

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Emmanuel, owner of Black Filigree Tattoo shop in Yuma, Arizona, has more ambitious plans.

From Fox News • Dec. 31, 2021

Filigree telly, with every painstakingly staged scene a plush indulgence – but Netflix’s more-or-less true story of the British royal family has enough grit to make it more than just a luxury.

From The Guardian • Sep. 16, 2019

Any Night A troubled young dancer begins a dangerous liaison with her mysterious upstairs neighbor as the Filigree Theatre presents the L.A. premiere of Daniel Arnold’s psychological thriller.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 2017

Filigree, fil′i-grē, n. a kind of ornamental metallic lacework of gold and silver, twisted into convoluted forms, united and partly consolidated by soldering—earlier forms, Fil′igrain, Fil′igrane.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Filigree is quite common still, and any one who has walked down the steep street of the Goldsmiths in Genoa is familiar with most of its modern forms.

From Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Addison, Julia de Wolf Gibbs