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  • noun Plural form of filigree.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of filigree.

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Examples

  • I was piping like a pro—swags, drop lines, filigrees, borders—my repertoire was complete.

    Cake Boss Buddy Valastro 2010

  • "Everybody told me this is who you'll have to be," she sings to filigrees of piano and acoustic guitar in "The Things That Everybody Does."

    Album review: Country singer Tift Merritt's ‘See You on the Moon' 2010

  • Ranging from ethereal, computer-designed filigrees, through dramatic wall pieces to angry-looking, dirt-encrusted tangles and anthropomorphic, sexually charged sculptures, the more than 90 works on display demonstrate awesome technique, meticulous attention to detail and extraordinary creativity.

    New Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Masters 2008

  • "Everybody told me this is who you'll have to be," she sings to filigrees of piano and acoustic guitar in "The Things That Everybody Does."

    Album review: Tift Merritt, "See You on the Moon" 2010

  • I don't know about the whole "jolene" thing and "red neckerson" where are you btw? but this so called "RTMS" makes it hard to scroll to the podium race - what with all those off center pictures, pop-culture references, and literary filigrees.

    Highlighting Inadequacy: Casting the First U-Lock BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • Not for The Boston Globe, whose reporters he met in jail wearing tasseled loafers with his prison scrubs (“Peppering his speech with verbal filigrees such as ‘quite so’ and ‘rather,’ he rambled on about the ‘five or six or seven’ languages that he speaks, the historical novel about the roots of Israeli statehood he is writing, and his work as a researcher of ‘anything from physics to social sciences,’” wrote one of the reporters).

    The Man in the Rockefeller Suit Seal, Mark 2009

  • “Wait here,” Topar said, and went through a wooden door bound with thick iron filigrees.

    The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007

  • The fissures spread away from the station, burrowing under the street outside, knitting with other extensive hollow filigrees which supported the surrounding buildings.

    The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007

  • Huge chandeliers, candelabras on every table, polished marble, statues and filigrees and ... you get the picture.

    trinityboy Diary Entry trinityboy 2006

  • Below, tucked into the crevices of the forest floor, delicate flowers poke their beautiful faces toward filigrees of light filtering through dancing leaves.

    Arcturian Songs of the Masters of Light Patricia L. Pereira 1999

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