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

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

Trina wears her wampum beads She fills her drawing book with line Sewing lace on widow’s weeds And filigree on leaf and vine.

From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2024

For all the political filigree, “The Regime” boils down to a love story of sorts between Elena and Herbert, and the stripped gears of their shifting power dynamic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2024

A long line of gold-cloaked spearmen held back the crowd, commanded by a stout man in elaborate armor, all black lacquer and gold filigree.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

It was a visceral alternative in an era when major labels were investing in ostentatious filigrees like gated reverb and prohibitively expensive synthesizers.

From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023

The delicate items include Lucrezia Beerli-Bieler’s intricately cut filigrees, Kate Norris’s collages of wallpaper motifs and Ashley Chiang’s quilled mandala.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2020

Country filigrees are sometimes heard, but the music is mostly pop, with touches of soul and a bit of tango, plus a whole lot of disco.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 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

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

A streetlamp casts a filigreed shadow in a beam of sunlight slanting into a deserted alley.

From New York Times ● May 4, 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

Nina and Inej were tucked up against the base of the biggest dome, a filigreed skylight that overlooked the embassy’s entry rotunda.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo