The word "embellishment" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the act of adding something decorative or extra to an item or place. For example, "The wooden armoire was given an elegant embellishment with a swath of gold-embroidered fabric."
In HHhH, his novel about the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Laurent Binet is positively disgusted by the prospect of committing any form of embellishment or factual inaccuracy.
First-hand accounts are blurred by the passing of time, memory itself becomes a form of embellishment, and witnesses and official accounts contradict each other.
Indians enjoyed telling the story back to them, with justifiable pride and perhaps a little masala (ie, embellishment).
Ms Munro's light touch and her sensitive embellishment of the truth result in a book that is illuminated by the patterns of life repeating themselves over the years: quiet domesticity is coupled with hope; taciturn fathers work without complaint; mothers are frugal and dutiful.
That requires some embellishment of the Taliban's image.
Mr Zedillo reformed pensions, switching from a pay-as-you-go system to Chilean-style individual capitalised accounts for new workers, but with one embellishment.
Carlo Collodi's late-19th-century children's tale of a pinewood puppet come to life needs no embellishment.
And he recorded all that (with the odd embellishment) in his memoir.In this section The Company that ruled the waves Frog-hunters of the Western Ghats The game A path through time immemorial How Luther went viral The faith (and doubts) of our fathers The servant problem Why have servants?
JJ Barea of the Minnesota Timberwolves and Donald Sloan of the Cleveland Cavaliers earned these dubious honours in two clear-cut cases of over-embellishment.
It helps to protect clothes from creasing, button impressions and possible snagging on embellishments.
Its language was Lingala, the tongue of the Congo river-trade; its religion was Catholic, with spiritualist embellishments.
