filagree

• “These cups are inserted in filagree gold holders shaped somewhat like hour-glasses.”

  Three Months in the Soudan

• “The other, who was a Mede, differed scarcely in his dress from Pausanias himself, except that he was profusely covered with ornaments; his arms were decorated with bracelets, he wore earrings, and a broad collar of unpolished stones in a kind of filagree was suspended from his throat.”

  Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance

• “They have a delicate filagree of intramuscular fat that melts when cooked and makes the absolute most tender, juicy, flavorful meats.”

  The Huffington Post: Meathead Goldwyn: Barbecue & Grilling Holiday Gift Guide

• “It's antique white gold filagree that is art deco in style.”

  TTT (on time!)

• “The dance group hated the opera and wanted to be performing their own work instead, where they were the entire focus of attention, rather than being filagree in a controversial opera about Palestinian terrorists murdering Leon Klinghoffer.”

  Archive 2009-03-01

• “I have a group of assistants who do much of the background and filagree work and I concentrate on the core of the painting.”

  Archive 2009-04-01

• “My favourite shoes were a pair of black suede pumps with four-inch heels, and this very cool and elegant gold filagree stuff on the heels.”

  Tastes and Fantasies

• “It is too full of pretty nothings to be a place for repose; one scarce knows where to sit down among carved Chinese work-tables with their myriads of fantastic figures inlaid in ivory, cups of yellow topaz mounted on filagree, mosaics which inspire theft,”

  The Imaginary Mistress

• “Stoutly resisting temptation, in the form of diamonds and rubies, Vendale bought a brooch of the filagree-work of”

  No Thoroughfare

• “I'm hoping it will vine up the filagree on my porch.”

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