English noun: embellishment |
1. | embellishment (communication) elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail |
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| Samples | The mystery has been heightened by many embellishments in subsequent retellings.
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| Synonyms | embroidery |
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| Broader (hypernym) | elaboration, enlargement, expansion |
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2. | embellishment (artifact) a superfluous ornament |
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| Broader (hypernym) | decoration, ornament, ornamentation |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | boule, boulle, buhl, cuspidation, festoon, filagree, filigree, fillagree, flourish, vermiculation |
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3. | embellishment (act) the act of adding extraneous decorations to something |
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| Synonyms | ornamentation |
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| Broader (hypernym) | decoration |
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