Both Uses of
embellish
in
Persuasion
- She heard it all under embellishment.†
Chpt 15 *
- …she closed the fatigues of the present by a toilsome walk to Camden Place, there to spend the evening chiefly in listening to the busy arrangements of Elizabeth and Mrs Clay for the morrow's party, the frequent enumeration of the persons invited, and the continually improving detail of all the embellishments which were to make it the most completely elegant of its kind in Bath, while harassing herself with the never-ending question, of whether Captain Wentworth would come or not?†
Chpt 22
Definition:
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(embellish) make something more attractive or interesting by adding to it