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embellish

[em-bel-ish] / ɛmˈbɛl ɪʃ /


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Embellish gifts with Christmas ornaments that coordinate with your decor.

From Southern Living • Nov. 19, 2010

No Need To Embellish One thing visitors notice straightaway is that there�s no landscaping.

From Time Magazine Archive

Embellish Rome, idealize away, Make paradise of London if you can, You're welcome, nay, you're wise.

From Men and Women by Porter, Charlotte Endymion

Whose horrid circle had made human life Than non-existence worse; but, taught by thee, Ours are the plans of policy and peace: To live like brothers, and conjunctive all Embellish life.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

Yclad in Scarlot, like a mayden Queene, And ermines white: Upon her head a Cremosin coronet, With Damaske roses and Daffadillies set: Bay leaves betweene, And primroses greene, Embellish the sweete Violet.

From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.




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