filigree

How To Use filigree In A Sentence

• The intricate, filigree footwork - very occasionally embellished with a few ballet steps such as an entrechat - is, on its own terms, both fascinating and exciting.
• The top of the picture is a dark pall, through which the canvas shows as almost invisible gold filigree. The Times Literary Supplement
• A spangled shoal of fish swept by him, rainbow-hued, fins of intricate filigree. CORMORANT
• Its great virtue is that it does not flower, making its silver, filigree foliage effect particularly clean and telling. Times, Sunday Times
• The stair is elegantly made, a light filigree of steel rod and plates that contrasts with the heavy concrete solidity of the vault.
• To your left you pass Cho Oyu, Mount Everest, and Makalu, each summit spiking in a web of frosted snow and giving way to yet more distant summits, the shining whiteness becoming a filigree of ice trails as your eyes fall to the lower ridges and then to stepped fields and trees—the last great undestroyed forests of the Himalayas. Vanity Fair - Enter the Dragon King
• Snarled hanks of colored line nest devotedly against one another and suspend euphoniously from a planar filigree of black over white.
• The filigreed ironwork of a stairway saved from Louis Sullivan's demolished Chicago Stock Exchange leads unexpectedly to the second floor. The New World Reborn
• The choreography evokes the ladies' specialties, their lethally polite rivalry, and, most important, the filigreed yet dazzling nature of Romantic-era technique.
• The techniques involved, including repoussé relief, inlays, enamelling, filigree, engraving, and hatching, are those of exceptionally skilled designer-craftsmen, who held a deservedly important position in society.