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filigrees

n. (plural of filigree English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: filigree)

Usage examples of "filigrees".

Babs and Saint had DIM lice in their hair, colorful little bugs that moved around on their scalps like tiny cars in traffic, arranging their hair in filigrees that could variously resemble shingles, paisley, crop circles, or herringbone tweed.

Ellen could see filigrees of exhaust licking out across the great distance, moving at tens of kilometers per second, to judge by the scale.

A pool of water, six inches deep, churned around their boots, brightened by silver filigrees of dancing eldritch light.

Their massive crowns were for the most part cloaked in the fog, and the aisles of graves under their limbs were obscured by filigrees of blackest shadows worked across a field of purple light.

Energies were still pouring up out of the ground, spirals and filigrees rising around him.

His doctoral thesis had focused on magnetic forces in galactic jets, and this thing definitely had a jet whose twists and filigrees the radio astronomers were enthusiastically mapping.