Usually means: Addition of details to enhance.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word embellishment:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. embellishment: Merriam-Webster
  2. embellishment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. embellishment: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. embellishment: Collins English Dictionary
  5. embellishment: Vocabulary.com
  6. Embellishment, embellishment: Wordnik
  7. embellishment: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. embellishment: Wiktionary
  9. embellishment: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. embellishment: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. embellishment: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Embellishment, embellishment: Dictionary.com
  13. Embellishment (disambiguation), Embellishment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Embellishment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. embellishment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. embellishment: Rhymezone
  17. Embellishment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. embellishment: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. embellishment: FreeDictionary.org
  20. embellishment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. embellishment: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. embellishment: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. embellishment: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See embellishments as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An act of embellishing.
noun:  An added touch; an ornamental addition; a flourish.

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