|  embellishment 
 
 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
 • Derivationally related forms:
 embroider (for: embroidery), embellish
 • Hypernyms:
 expansion, enlargement, elaboration
 2. a superfluous ornament
 • Hypernyms:
 decoration, ornament, ornamentation
 • Hyponyms:
 boulle, boule, buhl, cuspidation, festoon,
 filigree, filagree, fillagree, vermiculation, flourish
 3. the act of adding extraneous decorations to something
 • Syn:
 ornamentation
 • Derivationally related forms:
 embellish, ornament (for: ornamentation)
 • Hypernyms:
 decoration
 
 
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