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embellishment

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun embellishment has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

embellishmentn. [Cf. F. embellissement.].
  •  The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment.  [1913 Webster]
    "In the selection of their ground, as well as in the embellishment of it."  [1913 Webster]
  •  That which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration; as, pictorial embellishments.  [1913 Webster]
    "The graces and embellishments of the exterior man."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

embellishment

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, duplication of effort, elaboration, elegant variation, emblazonment, emblazonry, embroidery, enhancement, evolution, exaggeration, expletive, extravagance, fat, featherbedding, figure, figure of speech, filling, fine writing, fioritura, flight, floridity, floridness, flourish, flower arrangement, floweriness, flowers of speech, frill, frills, frippery, furniture arrangement, garnish, garnishment, garniture, gilding, gingerbread, grace, grace note, hyperbole, illumination, incidental, incidental note, long mordent, lushness, luxuriance, luxury, maturation, mordent, needlessness, ornament, ornamentation, ostentation, overadornment, overlap, overstatement, padding, passage, payroll padding, perfection, pleonasm, pralltriller, prolixity, purple patches, redundance, redundancy, refinement, ripening, roulade, run, seasoning, single mordent, superfluity, superfluousness, tautology, tinsel, trim, trimming, turn, unnecessariness, verbosity, window dressing

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embellishment

Ornament

N ornament, floridness c, adj, turgidity, turgescence, altiloquence, declamation, teratology, well-rounded periods, elegance, orotundity, inversion, antithesis, alliteration, paronomasia, figurativeness, flourish, flowers of speech, flowers of rhetoric, frills of style, euphuism, euphemism, big-sounding words, high-sounding words, macrology, sesquipedalia verba, Alexandrine, inflation, pretension, rant, bombast, fustian, prose run mad, fine writing, sesquipedality, Minerva press, phrasemonger, euphuist, euphemist, ornament, beautified, ornate, florid, rich, flowery, euphuistic, euphemistic, sonorous, high-sounding, big-sounding, inflated, swelling, tumid, turgid, turgescent, pedantic, pompous, stilted, orotund, high flown, high flowing, sententious, rhetorical, declamatory, grandiose, grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent, sesquipedal, sesquipedalian, Johnsonian, mouthy, bombastic, fustian, frothy, flashy, flaming, antithetical, alliterative, figurative, artificial, ore rutundo, ornament, ornamentation, ornamental art, ornature, ornateness, adornment, decoration, embellishment, architecture, jewelry, garnish, polish, varnish, French polish, veneer, japanning, lacquer, gilding, plating, ormolu, enamel, cloisonn_e, cosmetics (in general), makeup, eye shadow, rouge, face powder, lipstick, blush, pattern, diaper, powdering, paneling, graining, pargeting, detail, repousse (convexity), texture, richness, tracery, molding, fillet, listel, strapwork, coquillage, flourish, fleur-de-lis, arabesque, fret, anthemion, egg and tongue, egg and dart, astragal, zigzag, acanthus, cartouche, pilaster, bead, beading, champleve ware, cloisonne ware, frost work, Moresque, Morisco, tooling, embroidery, brocade, brocatelle, galloon, lace, fringe, trapping, border, edging, trimming, hanging, tapestry, arras, millinery, ermine, drap d'or, wreath, festoon, garland, chaplet, flower, nosegay, bouquet, posy, daisies pied and violets blue, tassel knot, shoulder knot, apaulette, epaulet, aigulet, frog, star, rosette, bow, feather, plume, pompom, panache, aigrette, finery, frippery, gewgaw, gimcrack, tinsel, spangle, clinquant, pinchbeck, paste, excess of ornament, gaud, pride, illustration, illumination, vignette, fleuron, head piece, tail piece, cul-de-lampe, flowers of rhetoric, work of art, ornamented, beautified, ornate, rich, gilt, begilt, tesselated, festooned, champleve, cloisonne, topiary, smart, gay, trickly, flowery, glittering, new gilt, new spangled, fine as a Mayday queen, fine as a fivepence, fine as a carrot fresh scraped, pranked out, bedight, well-groomed, in full dress, dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, dressed to advantage, in Sunday best, en grand tenue, en grande toilette, in best bib and tucker, endimanche, showy, flashy, gaudy, garish, gairish, gorgeous, ornamental, decorative, becoming.

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