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  • noun Plural form of embellishment.

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Examples

  • Frey came clean about what he calls his embellishments, each admission more shocking than the last.

    CNN Transcript Jan 26, 2006 2006

  • That service, without the embellishments, is sufficient for a nation to be grateful.

    BRIAN CULP 2010

  • Baris of Egypt with subsequent embellishments from the Babylonian deluge-legends: the latter may have been survivals of the days when the waters of the Persian Gulf extended to the mountains of Eastern

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The embellishments were a likely indication that it opened on a baptismal area—in a church of this vintage, the fountain would be in a separate chapel.

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Skin Deep Jerome Preisler 2010

  • And then Jim and his crew, and I give them credit, they did a terrific job spinning the so-called embellishments that the vice president made, without mentioning the incorrect statements that Governor Bush made, and the media brought into it hook, line and sinker.

    CNN Transcript - CNN Late Edition: Recapping the Year in Politics - December 31, 2000 2000

  • Among the embellishments are the Madonna and Child, from Murillo; half-figure of the Saviour, and St. John, and St. Magdalen, all from

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 402, Supplementary Number (1829) Various

  • Mr. Sikes 'authority for the last story; but his experience and skill in borrowing from other books are so much greater than in oral collection that it is probably from some literary source, though no doubt many of the embellishments are his own.

    The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Edwin Sidney Hartland 1887

  • From a designer that "all the ladies love", this necklace features a silk toile bow wrapped around beaded "brass embellishments", not to be confused with brash embellishments, which is probably the only way you managed to land a girlfriend in the first place.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Thrillist 2011

  • You may want to make headlines and single-word embellishments artsier than long blocks of text, which you need to make sure your viewers can read easily.

    Macworld Katherine Murray 2010

  • You can also include other small items (called embellishments) such as ticket stubs, sea shells, buttons, and brads that add to the lifelike quality of your pages.

    Macworld Katherine Murray 2010

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