filligree

• But it takes weeks to apply a filligree of white sugar to the top of a wedding cake. —  Happy Antipodean
• The railing is of good workmanship, in imitation of filligree, and is interwoven with open-worked inscriptions of yellow bronze, supposed by the vulgar to be of gold, and of so close a texture, that no view can be gained into p.332] the interior, except by several small windows, about six inches square, which are placed in the four sides of the railing, about five feet above the ground. —  Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred
• The railing is of good workmanship, in imitation of filligree, and is interwoven with open-worked inscriptions of yellow bronze, supposed by the vulgar to be of gold, and of so close —  Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred
• He began with, "My Lord, and you, gentlemen of the jury, I humbly do conceive I have the authority to declare that I am counsel in this case for the defendant; therefore, my Lord, I shall not flourish away in words; words are no more than filligree work. —  A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812
• On one side stood the toilette-table, with its small mirror then in vogue, and all its equipage of silver flasks, filligree cassets, japan patch-boxes, scent-bottles, and pomatum-pots. —  Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire

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