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

The snow has melted, leaving a dirty filigree, the wind is blowing around the grit left over from winter, the crocuses are pushing up through the mud of the desolate smashed-down lawns.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood