What is "embellishment"

Usage examples of "embellishment".

The boxlike room, stripped of all embellishment or parlor fussiness, a room that wished to be timeless or ahistorical, and there, in the middle of it, my deeply historical, timeworn grandmother.

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.

That led Amanda and Graham to provide their own comical and often irreverent embellishments, for which they told each other that the ghosts of those good folks would be after them one day, hence the joke.

Now that she mixed with her peers from Palatine and Carinae she heard all the gossip and faithfully reported it to him free of embellishments.

All Confessors wore dresses cut the same, square at the neck, long, simple, free of embellishment, and satiny smooth, but of black fabric.

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.

That our work, therefore, might be in no danger of being likened to the labours of these historians, we have taken every occasion of interspersing through the whole sundry similes, descriptions, and other kind of poetical embellishments.

It fit the context and contained, within a cloud of embellishments, the set of phonemes that denoted something that was small in size or a model for something larger.

By dim strands of light I caught glimpses of embellishment on the walls: skulls, skulls, skulls.

Sheldrake, had got a Fourth in History and was only chosen for his present post because he was a member of the Freemasons, or that the yapping little cocker spaniel of a man who tried to teach us football had been dismissed from a job at Borstal for suspected buggery and even and this was a story which lasted with considerable embellishments throughout the whole of one long, wet summer term that the angry string bean of a man who taught us French had been a close friend of Burgess and Maclean and lived in daily terror of being arrested as an old Cambridge leftie and still-active Soviet spy.

He recounted the events of the day, with Carline enthusiastically adding embellishments.