filigree

[ US /ˈfɪɫəˌɡɹi/ ]
[ UK /fˈɪlɪɡɹˌiː/ ]
NOUN
  1. delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire)
VERB
  1. make filigree, as with a precious metal
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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.
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