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Embellishment :: Embellishment (n.) That which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration; as, pictorial embellishments..

Cadence :: Cadence (n.) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy..

Fixing :: Fixing (n.) Arrangements; embellishments; trimmings; accompaniments.

Turn :: Turn (n.) An embellishment or grace (marked thus, /), commonly consisting of the principal note, or that on which the turn is made, with the note above, and the semitone below, the note above being sounded first, the principal note next, and the semitone below last, the three being performed quickly, as a triplet preceding the marked note. The turn may be inverted so as to begin with the lower note, in which case the sign is either placed on end thus /, or drawn thus /..

Mordente :: Mordente (n.) An embellishment resembling a trill.

Fancy :: Fancy (n.) The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination..

Mounting :: Mounting (n.) That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond..

Exornation :: Exornation (n.) Ornament; decoration; embellishment.

Figure :: Figure (n.) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical or motive; a florid embellishment.

Flourish :: Flourish (n.) Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit..

Emblaze :: Emblaze (v. t.) To adorn with glittering embellishments.

Embellishment :: Embellishment (n.) The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment..

Disembellish :: Disembellish (v. t.) To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn.

Enrichment :: Enrichment (n.) The act of making rich, or that which enriches; increase of value by improvements, embellishment, etc.; decoration; embellishment..

Garnish :: Garnish (n.) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment. See Garnish, v. t., 2..

Melisma :: Melisma (n.) A grace or embellishment.

Garniture :: Garniture (v. t.) That which garnishes; ornamental appendage; embellishment; furniture; dress.

Variation :: Variation (n.) Repetition of a theme or melody with fanciful embellishments or modifications, in time, tune, or harmony, or sometimes change of key; the presentation of a musical thought in new and varied aspects, yet so that the essential features of the original shall still preserve their identity..

Decoration :: Decoration (n.) That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament..

Garnish :: Garnish (n.) Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated..

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