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
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
She listens to the wind sift through the filigree of the crown of the gazebo, and the walls of the maze hold steady around them, Paris murmuring below, the drowsy purr of a Saturday morning.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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
In the YouTube series, you see Poo Bear recording guide-vocal demos for various songs and, later, Bieber rerecording them with his own little filigrees.
From New York Times ● Feb. 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
The piano plays filigrees, occupying another musical realm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 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
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
Vieux Farka Touré has inherited his father's expressive, filigreed guitar phrasing; while Khruangbin are known for fusing elements of soul and blues with a globe-trotting blend of dub, Thai funk, cumbia and flamenco.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2022
At Slidell we changed into another Greyhound bus with a new driver—a middle-aged man, large-bellied with a heavy, jowled face filigreed with tiny red blood vessels near the surface of his cheeks.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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