filigree

Example Sentences

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They began opening up random doors to discover ornate ballrooms, marble clad hallways and wooden furniture with golden filigree.

From New York Times

When his fingers touched the keys, though, waves of airy filigree, beautifully formed and finished, emerged in almost uninterrupted streams for his two-hour solo recital.

From New York Times

We took the two-deck Cinderella north into the filigree of islands that separate Stockholm from the open Baltic.

From Washington Post

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

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