embellishment

Example Sentences

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Embellishment is hallmark of gospel, as it had been of 17th, 18th and 19th century opera — the era when gospel developed.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2018

Embellishment aside, this is what succession planners call “institutional knowledge.”

From BusinessWeek • Jan. 16, 2014

Embellishment and flopping were dismissed with scorn when several players discussed drawing penalties.

From Washington Post

The most topical was a book called Judaism Without Embellishment, published last year by the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.

From Time Magazine Archive

This Prince, in the five Years time that he has been Bishop, has done more things for the Embellishment of Wurtzbourg than ten of his Predecessors put together.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von