What is "filigreed"

Usage examples of "filigreed".

Filigreed silver goblets with rubies, mounds of moonstones, elfinbone daggers sharper than Damascene steel.

The beast was surmounted by a glitteringly black and silver cupola whose bulbously filigreed windows gave no hint of who or what might be inside.

The design was rococo, the overall impression not too dissimilar from a baroque pearl if you ignored the fact that the silhouette was filigreed rather than continuous.

Tea was served on a polished tray of filigreed European silver, in cups of bone china, poured from a tall acid-etched silver pot with curling feet.

Vangerdahast threaded his way through filigreed chairs of white-painted bow wood and gilded lounges covered with floral print cushions.

Five days later they arrived at the top of the cable, and decelerated into locks inside the ballast asteroid Clarke, now a much-tunneled chunk of carbonaceous chondrite, so filigreed with exterior buildings and interior chambers that it seemed more a spaceship or a city than Mars's third moon.

Five days later they arrived at the top of the cable, and decelerated into locks inside the ballast asteroid Clarke, now a much-tunneled chunk of carbonaceous chondrite, so filigreed with exterior buildings and interior chambers that it seemed more a spaceship or a city than Mars’.

On its height overlooking the sea, the Castle of Glass formed a soaring pile of blazing amethyst and topaz, braced with spangled flying buttresses and crowned by filigreed spires beaconed with yellow stars.

Sawyer moved slowly around his library, touching things: the corner of a filigreed silver frame, the gilt edge of a leatherbound volume of Bruce Cat-ton's Civil War history, an agate paperweight, so on.

Canted down on its gimbal ring, the big floodlight illuminated a circular swatch of sea only ten yards from the submarine: churning waves filigreed with icy foam, a seething maelstrom but one that was not too difficult to ride.

On another table squatted a jewel casket with etched and filigreed lock plates, its matching keys lying carelessly alongside.

Fine wood had been carved and steamed into curves, and filigreed ironwork protected the corners and was mounted as latches on the lid.

Behind them, the rows of filigreed doors threw long oval splashes of light across the semidarkened veranda.

To one side was a table laden with steamed and stuffed fruits, to the other was an ornately filigreed lyssomwood panel, the better, doubtless, to screen him from the ululating din of the streets and boulevards below.

The prows and keels of the eastward-tacking thunderheads appeared to be filigreed with gold leaf, for they were uplighted by the luminous suburban sea above which they sailed.