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embellishment

English

  1. 🔊 a superfluous ornament
  2. 🔊 elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail
    “the mystery has been heightened by many embellishments in subsequent retellings”
  3. 🔊 the act of adding extraneous decorations to something

Similar words

ornamentation embroidery acciaccatura adjunct adornment appoggiatura arabesque arrangement beauties beautification bedizenment cadence cadenza color color patterns coloratura coloring colors colors of rhetoric decor decoration development division duplication