filigreed

verb

Definition of filigreednext
past tense of filigree
as in embroidered

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for filigreed
  1. embroidered
  2. braided
  3. wreathed
  4. fringed
  5. laced
  6. hung
  7. painted
  8. swagged
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  • Cox, who’s been vacationing with Aniston and her boyfriend Jim Curtis off the coast of Mallorca, looked radiant in a white slip dress embroidered with floral designs.
    — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 3 Aug. 2026
  • There folks designed their own complimentary Scout Motors Stateside work shirts, choosing from an array of badges before turning over the button-downs to be custom embroidered.
    — Lori Majewski, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of embroidered
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  • Her glossy hair, braided into two plaits, hung down over her shoulders in a style unusual for young girls these days.
    — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Rebecca wore her simple weekday covering over her hair, which had been pulled back in a ponytail, then braided and pinned up on the back of her head.
    — Rachel Yoder, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 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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  • Castelo Ventoso is up a long dirt track fringed with cork trees.
    — Lucy Gillmore, Travel + Leisure, 30 July 2026
  • This spot, littered in condom wrappers and fringed by jungle, is familiar to her.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026
Definition of fringed
Verb
  • The Canadian producer/musician creates songs that feel like they’re haunted by their own ghosts, laced with intertwining echoes, tiny sonic fractures, and a palpable sense of place.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Out in the wild, turbulent air swirls these plumes into a chaotic, broken landscape—dense chemical filaments laced through long stretches of clean air.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of laced
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  • At the Whitney Biennial, Carmen de Monteflores’s long-unseen shaped canvases of colorful overlapping figures hung alongside her daughter Andrea Fraser’s wax sculptures of sleeping toddlers.
    — Carmen Rosenberg-Miller, Artforum, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Law enforcement and other first responders saluted as the ambulance went by, and a large United States flag hung over the area.
    — Steven Yablonski, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of hung
Verb
  • The researchers recovered usable DNA from 95 historical specimens spanning nearly 140 years and compared them with modern samples collected in the 2000s, and the results painted a sobering picture.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The Miami-Dade State’s Attorney’s Office painted Obumseli as a victim of domestic violence in the case against Clenney, citing the couple’s allegedly combative relationship.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of painted
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  • 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 11 Aug. 2026.

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