Hypertext Webster Gateway: "embellishment"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Embellishment \Em*bel"lish*ment\, n. [Cf. F. embellissement.]
1. The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned;
adornment.
In the selection of their ground, as well as in the
embellishment of it. --Prescott.
2. That which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration;
as, pictorial embellishments.
The graces and embellishments of the exterior man.
--I. Taylor.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
embellishment
n 1: elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative
(sometimes fictitious) detail; "the mystery has been
heightened by many embellishments in subsequent
retellings" [syn: {embroidery}]
2: a superfluous ornament
3: the act of adding extraneous decorations to something [syn:
{ornamentation}]
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