Example sentences for: filigree

How can you use “filigree” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He has even been known to do this in French: garde-nez nose-protector is a logical amalgam of garder to guard and pince-nez: An extravagant garde-nez of gold filigree clung to the ridge of his nose.

  • The tour includes Frederick’s splendid Konzertsaal (Concert Chamber) where walls and ceiling are overlaid with a delicate gilt filigree.

  • Besides earrings, brooches, necklaces, and bracelets, you will find plaques and filigree jewelry, perfume bottles, snuff boxes (originally designed for betel nuts), belt buckles, caskets, lacquered trays, and magnificent bowls.

  • In the filigree figures accompanying transitional passages in the first movement, or the dialogue with the French horns near the end of the same movement, it's close to a revelation.

  • The smiths can produce any style: from intricate filigree work to simple bracelets.


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