What is "embellishments"

Usage examples of "embellishments".

There were several dishes quaintly decorated, and which had evidently something traditional in their embellishments, but about which, as I did not like to appear overcurious, I asked no questions.

It was the intrinsic fascination of the text that caught me, its somber beauty, its ominous embellishments, its gonglike rhythms, rather than any immediate connection with that Arizona monastery.

A fillet of silver lace fastened with pins whose diamond embellishments blazed in the sunlight bound her gray hair.

It has completely taken off the sharp touchings and spirited reliefs of these embellishments of life, and has worn down society into a more smooth and polished, but certainly a less characteristic, surface.

The interior is spacious, and the architecture and embellishments superior to those of most country churches.

The embellishments in the oblong room, though old and faded, were replete with familiar symbology.