To make more beautiful and attractive by adding ornamentation; to decorate.
The old book cover was embellished with golden letters
To enhance by adding something not strictly integral or necessary.
A Scythian Shepherd, so imbelliſhed With Natures pride, and richeſt furniture? His looks do menace heauen & dare the Gods, His fiery eies are fixt vpon the earth.
To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, embroider, or even misrepresent or lie.
to embellish a story, the truth
From Middle English embelishen, from Old French embellir, from em- + bel.
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