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

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

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

Now they have added new filigrees to their careers: Short and Martin both received Emmy nominations for their lead acting roles in the Hulu comedy “Only Murders in the Building.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2022

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

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

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

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

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