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embellishment

Noun

Meaning

The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment.

That which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration; as, pictorial embellishments.

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And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence. Friedrich Schleiermacher

I am an artist. Gardening is my graffiti. A graffiti artist beautifies walls; I beautify parkways and yards. I treat the garden as a piece of cloth and the plants and the trees are the embellishment of that cloth. You'd be surprised what soil can do if you let it be your canvas. Ron Finley

Spinoza in particular belongs to the immortal authors. He is great because of the sublime simplicity of his thoughts and his way of writing, great because of his distance from all scholasticism, and, on the other hand, from all false embellishment or ostentation of language. Baruch Spinoza

... he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days. Henry James

I'm happy with embellishment in a chunky Prada-esque way, but I'm not into sequins! Ashley Madekwe

Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that. Charlie Watts

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