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filigreed

verb

Definition of filigreednext
past tense of filigree
as in embroidered

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  1. embroidered
  2. braided
  3. wreathed
  4. fringed
  5. laced
  6. hung
  7. painted
  8. swagged
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  • The house also embroidered a luxury train carriage's interior and cushions for the 2026 Brit Awards.
    — Clare Coulson, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The Murray Hill man wears a fleece vest embroidered with his employer’s logo (the bank, the fund) ten months out of the year.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of embroidered
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  • Another is challah, bread that is usually braided and typically eaten on ceremonial occasions, which is served as a round loaf at Rosh Hashanah.
    — Kathryn Gregory, Louisville Courier Journal, 7 Sep. 2026
  • And weighty ropes—the sort that might be used to moor a boat—are braided with chains and arranged on the ground in the form of a curving river.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of braided
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  • In the bathroom, there are shuttered windows wreathed with Como silk and a luscious roll-top bath.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • On a hill wreathed in mist above the dark sea that runs between New Zealand’s North and South Islands, Ward and others crossed rugged farmland late on Tuesday night, carrying seven crates in silence by dim red torchlight.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
Definition of wreathed
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  • Even the most reflexive of answers are fringed with doubt, which to my mind is reason enough to ban the practice of capital punishment.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 13 Sep. 2026
  • Castelo Ventoso is up a long dirt track fringed with cork trees.
    — Lucy Gillmore, Travel + Leisure, 30 July 2026
Definition of fringed
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  • The teams traded runs in the 10th, when Encarnacion-Strand raced home on a wild pitch and Marcus Semien laced a one-out RBI double for the Mets.
    — CBS New York Team, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
  • With the midterm election just weeks away, Democrats laced into Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in a combative House hearing Tuesday.
    — Matt Peterson, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of laced
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  • Last year, immigration raids and tariffs hung over the celebration causing the event and mas bands to make adjustments.
    — Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Over the past two years, about a half-dozen Black women and men have been found hanged across the South.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of hung
Verb
  • One of his biggest projects after returning to public life was a series of portraits of the Statue of Liberty, painted at the White House at the invitation of first lady Nancy Reagan in 1981.
    — BETH J. HARPAZ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2026
  • However, Lizzie painted a different picture of their relationship when questioned by police in the wake of the murders.
    — Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of painted
Verb
  • The two areas are linked in delightfully indulgent ways, including a darkly glamorous corridor swagged with flower chandeliers and a giant eye behind the bar, with crystal eyelashes.
    — Sarah Turner, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Definition of swagged
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“Filigreed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/filigreed. Accessed 20 Sep. 2026.

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