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

A piece of a wide late-17th-century French border turns to architecture for inspiration, specifically the half-domed niches of a lavish room, which it converts into an astounding filigree.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2022

Some of the Indian women wore their finest saris, made with gold filigree that draped in elegant pleats over their shoulders.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri