filigree

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

Inside a converted chocolate factory outside of Milan, a master goldsmith sat at a workstation, shaping a strip of metal into filigree so fine it resembled lace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

For all the political filigree, “The Regime” boils down to a love story of sorts between Elena and Herbert, and the stripped gears of their shifting power dynamic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2024

Your eye is drawn to the dazzling, filigree lace around the neck of the young woman.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2023

Blue-gold tinged with pink, each dewdrop turned into a scintillating jewel, spiders’ webs became glittering filigree, birdsong rang out as if there had never been a day as fresh and beautiful as this one.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

The author’s ardor for Paris is evident in her copious historical filigrees, which often betray a determination to pack in every last nugget of research.

From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2019

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

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

It would be better to view this fine film as deceptively small, revealing its own distinctively filigreed array of the gentle and good in all that meaningful silence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2022

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

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2022

Critics have called it a "colossal spectacle" with "arresting, filigreed and meaningful" designs and textures.

From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2022

High marble arches circle the inside of the sanctuary, and a carved, filigreed screen divides it.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins