Definition of embellishment

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

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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..
Figure :: Figure (n.) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical or motive; a florid embellishment.
Melisma :: Melisma (n.) A grace or embellishment.
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..
Decoration :: Decoration (n.) That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament..
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..
Plain :: Plain (superl.) Void of extraneous beauty or ornament; without conspicious embellishment; not rich; simple.
Embellishment :: Embellishment (n.) The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment..
Exornation :: Exornation (n.) Ornament; decoration; embellishment.
Garniture :: Garniture (v. t.) That which garnishes; ornamental appendage; embellishment; furniture; dress.
Garnish :: Garnish (n.) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment. See Garnish, v. t., 2..
Mordente :: Mordente (n.) An embellishment resembling a trill.
Enrichment :: Enrichment (n.) The act of making rich, or that which enriches; increase of value by improvements, embellishment, etc.; decoration; embellishment..
Fixing :: Fixing (n.) Arrangements; embellishments; trimmings; accompaniments.
Disembellish :: Disembellish (v. t.) To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn.
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..
Garnish :: Garnish (n.) Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated..
Embellishment :: Embellishment (n.) That which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration; as, pictorial embellishments..
Ornament :: Ornament (n.) That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment.
Emblaze :: Emblaze (v. t.) To adorn with glittering embellishments.
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