filigree
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In the coming weeks, permanent plaza fences will be erected here — curvy stainless-steel structures that MAD Architects principal Dixon Junliang Lu compared to the lacy filigree of Art Nouveau architecture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
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
The heart of the track is his crystalline vocal, which carries over his steady piano work, with a few splashes of filigree on the bridge.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
Lost: Silver cross on filigree chain, topaz pin and earrings, gold-filled cuff links.
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
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
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
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
Critics have called it a "colossal spectacle" with "arresting, filigreed and meaningful" designs and textures.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2022
At Slidell we changed into another Greyhound bus with a new driver—a middle-aged man, large-bellied with a heavy, jowled face filigreed with tiny red blood vessels near the surface of his cheeks.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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