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
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
Live shows are also becoming more ambitious in scale and filigree, underscoring how big concerts are becoming experiential luxury goods.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2023
Your eye is drawn to the dazzling, filigree lace around the neck of the young woman.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2023
I held them up, peering through a filigree of dropped stitches.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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But if the ambitious first season does not reinvent the ring, it is a breathtaking reproduction that adds a few new filigrees.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2022
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
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
Balancing on his hands or torso, he frees his legs to twist into filigrees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2017
Lichens splotch the stone; leached minerals have left filigrees of stains.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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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
The plan for the site, a pair of twin towers that spiraled upward, a filigreed weave of steel and air, would transform the center for trade to one of civics and culture.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
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
He brought it down: a huge tome bound in pale-green velvet with a filigreed layer of silver scrollwork laid over it.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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