The word 'filigree' is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to describe delicate and intricate designs or decoration, especially in metalwork or jewelry. Example: The ornate chandelier hanging from the ceiling was adorned with filigree patterns, casting beautiful shadows on the walls.
With his wispy hair and kind, boyish eyes contradicting his forehead's filigree wrinkles, all he needs is a battered top hat to make him look like a gold-hearted Dickensian goodie, a Pip of late middle age.
Where most new buildings wrap themselves in cladding, this selectively reveals its structure and workings, in a way that allows different degrees of scale, and of strength and delicacy, from sheer glass to robust steel, to the filigree workings of lifts.
The line of blocks, which will climb to heights of up to 200 metres and terminate in a monumental gateway building, share the clocktower's Islamic-lite language: a cliched dressing of pointed arches and filigree grillwork plastered over generic concrete shells.
Wind cross-hatched its long grasses to gleaming filigree as I climbed through scattered holm oak and Corsican pine to the ridge.
And yet, in the villages visited by Mr Buchan, then reading Persian at Oxford, the people lived in houses made of mud.In the 1960s and 1970s hubris, corruption and foreign mass culture smashed through the delicate filigree of Persian society.
As Jai's third wife, she should have been in purdah in a "city" of 400 other lounging and sewing women, watching the world through filigree screens.
One dagger has a crescent-shaped handle and a blade of iron a metal known to have had many times the value of gold at this time and among the ornaments there is a fine gold-filigree (openwork made with metal wire) diadem.
A number of sites in Peru, Guiana, and Honduras have yielded elaborate tubular gold-filigree beads.
Not enough, one sensed, as they launched into the filigree-delicate opening movement of Mahler's Fourth, with its woodwind and sleigh-bells ringing out over gentle strings.
The show hangs on its carefully chosen and often filigreed dialogue, and it is that which leads you into the dark corners.
Sematech, a research consortium of ten semiconductor firms (including IBM) that is based in Austin, Texas, proudly showed off its first copper-filigreed chip in August.
