- embellishment, embroidery - elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail; "the mystery has been heightened by many embellishments in subsequent retellings"
--1 is a kind of expansion, enlargement, elaboration
Derived form: verb embellish1 - embellishment - a superfluous ornament
--2 is a kind of decoration, ornament, ornamentation
--2 has particulars:boulle, boule, buhl; cuspidation; festoon; filigree, filagree, fillagree; vermiculation; flourish - ornamentation, embellishment - the act of adding extraneous decorations to something
--3 is a kind of decoration
Derived form: verb embellish3 - ornamentation, embellishment - the act of adding extraneous decorations to something