embellishment
Example Sentences
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Mr. Tallent mixes climbing terminology with poetic embellishments to evoke the sport’s risks and triumphs.
We know embellishment is one of the biggest trends for next spring and summer - with extravagantly textured items also seen across many runways.
From BBC
This is war writing at its best, brutally and straightforwardly told because the events and deeds Sledge recounts require no embellishment.
Titled “Mary Magdalene,” it mixes fact and fiction, as in general seems to be Davis’ wont as a natural-born storyteller, always refining her tale through fabulation and embellishment.
From Los Angeles Times
The scenes follow her attempts to shake off her dependency on Xavier, gliding in an elegant but wispy and uncentered way between memories, philosophical maunderings and embellishments of imagined interactions.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
