filigree

• The Shadow is all flash and filigree, as Terry Southern would put it; F/X entrepreneurs run amuck; story written by know-nothing scribblers brought up on a steady diet of tv and post-music noise. —  F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 06 - December 1994
• Modern laboratory tests prove that his beaten gold filigree is actually made from modern drawn wire. —  dummy 3
• Colour Design eyeshadow in filigree, model, chic and couture —  Ontario Blogs Feed
• Under carefully filtered light, designed to protect the manuscripts from exposure to the elements, the fine Arabic calligraphy stretches across the pages, in some cases delicately embossed in filigree or decorated at the edges. —  Mail & Guardian Online
• I think it is one of the most elaborate specimens of wrought ironwork, applied to such a purpose, that I have met with; against a sunny sky it is like so much beautiful filigree--the metal wind-plate is apparently a much later restoration, and is perforated with the letters "W. —  The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly

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