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 set up a card table which she covered with a filigree lace tablecloth from Florence.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

The music is lean and nimble, with improvisatory guitar filigrees, leaping and slapping bass lines, darting accordion countermelodies and huffing brass-band chords, all delivered with pinpoint syncopation.

From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2023

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

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

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 ● Dec. 15, 2022

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

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2022

Here and there an intact building stands without its window glass, the filigreed trails of smoke grown up from its windows like the shadows of ivy that have been ripped away.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr