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Definition of Embellished
1. embellish [v] - See also: embellish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embellished
Literary usage of Embellished
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"... proceeds to describe the different systems for carrying the block system into
effect The chapters devoted to this subject are embellished by a large ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1892)
"Another pretty work of French origin is " My Uncle and My Cure," by Jean de la
Brete, translated by Ernest Redwood, embellished with thirty-four ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"he greatly improved and embellished. Pope, in the ' Epilogue to the Satires ' (Dialogue
II, pp. .... embellished ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"(129) by the diligence, and sometimes embellished by the fancy, of succeeding
writers ... embellished ..."
5. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1889)
"It is embellished with a portrait of Mr. Lower, which first appeared in 1860, as
a frontispiece to his ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... founder of the seminary; Pier Antonio Spinelli (1628) and Jacopo Carafa (1646),
both of whom restored and embellished the cathedral. ..."
7. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"7019); it is embellished with a variety of rade drawings, which have been engraved
for the present edition. The notes placed at the end of the volume embody ..."
8. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1904)
"Its pages were embellished with copper-plate engravings which in some cases reach
quite a high level of excellence. Amongst the engravers employed upon the ..."
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