filigree

The filigree work and interlinking creatures on Eastern European drinking bowls are even more stunning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

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

Blue-gold tinged with pink, each dewdrop turned into a scintillating jewel, spiders’ webs became glittering filigree, birdsong rang out as if there had never been a day as fresh and beautiful as this one.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

The author’s ardor for Paris is evident in her copious historical filigrees, which often betray a determination to pack in every last nugget of research.

From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2019

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

Williams first thought he might not have the energy or time to compose two hours of the kind of elaborate, filigreed orchestral music that is his provenance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023

Its silty rivers rush down from the Himalayas, spill into a filigreed maze of ponds, wetlands and tributaries before emptying into the blustery, black Bay of Bengal.

From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2023

After flowering, the plants set an equally abundant crop of ballooning seedpods topped with a filigreed crown.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2022

In the pine-patched moonlight, the Queen Anne’s goblets looked for all the world like filigreed silver.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli