Embellishment

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  • noun. The act of embellishing or the state of being embellished.
  • noun. Something that embellishes; a decoration.
  • noun. A note that embellishes a melody.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of embellishing, or the state of being embellished.
  • noun. Ornament; decoration; anything that adds beauty or elegance; that which renders anything tasteful or pleasing to the sense: as, rich dresses are embellishments, of the person; virtue is an embellishment of the mind.
  • noun. Specifically In music, an ornamental addition to the essential tones of a melody, such as a trill, an appoggiatura, a turn, etc.; a grace or decoration.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment.
  • noun. That which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An unnecessarily added touch, an ornamental addition, a flourish.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail
  • noun. a superfluous ornament
  • noun. the act of adding extraneous decorations to something
    • Word Usage
    "The smoke-key embellishment is a result of some experimenting I did with etching metal."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    decoration  elaboration  enlargement  expansion  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    adornment  affluence  amplification  attractiveness  carving  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    acciaccatura  adjunct  adornment  adornment  appoggiatura  
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