(a.) Inlaid between partitions: -- said of enamel when the lines which divide the different patches of fields are composed of a kind of metal wire secured to the ground; as distinguished from champleve enamel, in which the ground is engraved or scooped out to receive the enamel.
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Filigree
Definition:
(n.) Ornamental work, formerly with grains or breads, but now composed of fine wire and used chiefly in decorating gold and silver to which the wire is soldered, being arranged in designs frequently of a delicate and intricate arabesque pattern.
(a.) Relating to, composed of, or resembling, work in filigree; as, a filigree basket. Hence: Fanciful; unsubstantial; merely decorative.
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(1) The invaginations were classified into four easily recognized types: regular, chunky, filigree, and ridge (present only in axon hillock regions).
(2) Nestling beneath the craggy wall of Fort Saint-Jean, a 17th-century stronghold that once housed the Foreign Legion, the squat glass building is shielded from the harsh Mediterranean sun by a dark filigree veil.
(3) (An early profile described his secretary as "a busty hippy in a skintight, purple mini-dress, with filigreed white stockings, lace-up boots and funkily mismatched earrings".
(4) In front of them is a cedarwood box on a plinth covered with silver nickel filigree work and a plaque in the shape of the Wu-Tang Clan’s batlike logo, which the RZA calls “the illest album cover in the word”.
(5) Many are more than a century old, their age written in the fading colours, filigrees of damp, and decades of creeping mould that envelop most exteriors.
(6) She is a subtle filigree of implicit contradictions, because although we like our stereotypes, we like the tensions better as long as they are unobtrusive and of little consequence – that is, they don’t get in the way of her being and doing what we expect of her.
(7) Glial invaginations into neurons are of four different kinds: regular, chunky, filigree, and ridge (found only at axon hillocks).
(8) She knows exactly what she wants: a particular antique amber bracelet, set in elaborate silver filigree.
(9) The cancellous bone structure has a filigree appearance which is also recognizable by the glass-like appearance on radiographs.
(10) In the framework of this model, protamine phosphorylation appears to promote formation of DNA interstrand links yielding a very pronounced filigree structure.
(11) As the singer traces the delicate filigree of her song, elderly men in spotless white dhotis sway their heads in fierce concentration, and even the children cease to fidget.
(12) As in other sites, we categorized the dominant histologic pattern as diffuse or filigree, the latter carrying a more unfavorable prognosis.
(13) The academy like to give Oscars to villains but prefers them to be entirely fictional, to eat the scenery, or have a wisecrack or two up their sleeve – think Anthony Hopkins Hannibal Lecter, Heath Ledger’s Joker, or Christoph Waltz’s Nazi in Inglorious Basterds, whereas Ralph Fiennes’s filigree turn as Amon Goeth in Schindler’s List went unrewarded.
(14) They were all romancers, metaphysicals, dabblers in literary alchemy determined to spin gossamer filigree out of the apparently unpromising stuff of American life.
(15) It's hard to escape the circle in Birmingham's new £189m library , due to open on Tuesday next week, which towers 10 storeys above Centenary Square as a gigantic stack of boxes, wrapped in a filigree skin of metal loops.