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garnish
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garnish as in:  garnished with parsley

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  • The chef decided to garnish the dish with a sprinkle of freshly chopped chives and a drizzle of balsamic reduction.
    garnish = decorate
  • Cover the filled chiles with this nut sauce and garnish with the pomegranates.  (source)
    garnish = decorate and embellish
  • His bedroom was the simplest room of all — except where the dresser was garnished with a toilet set of pure dull gold.  (source)
    garnished = decorated
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  • The plate is garnished with salt, pepper, and fresh parsley.†  (source)
    garnished = decorated or adorned
  • Then I garnish it with a cut-up strawberry.†  (source)
    garnish = to decorate or adorn something; or the item added for decoration
  • He occupies himself with undressing and then garnishing Lydia: she should be garlanded with flowers — ivory-coloured, shell pink — and with perhaps a border of hothouse grapes and peaches.†  (source)
    garnishing = decorating or adorning
  • Peering through the little round window in the door, the Count could see that the chef's assistants were standing at the ready in their freshly bleached coats; he could see that the sauces were simmering on the stovetop and the garnishes ready for plating.†  (source)
    garnishes = decorates or adorns; or the items used for decoration
  • And every square inch of ungarnished surface area had been drowned out beneath an operatic application of "disco paint," at one of Rawalpindi's many Bedford workshops.†  (source)
    ungarnished = not decorated or adorned
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in ungarnished means not and reverses the meaning of garnished. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • A bow, and well-fill'd quiver, and a sword, Meriones to sage Ulysses gave; And on his brows a leathern headpiece plac'd, Well wrought within, with num'rous straps secur'd, And on th' outside, with wild boars' gleaming tusks Profusely garnish'd, scatter'd here and there By skilful hand; the midst with felt was lin'd; This from Amyntor, son of Ormenus, Autolycus from Eleon bore away, Spoil of his pillag'd house; Autolycus Gave to Amphidamas, Cytheran chief, Who in Scandea dwelt; Amphidamas To Molus, pledge of friendship; he again Gave to his son, Meriones, from whom It now encircled sage Ulysses' brow.†  (source)
    garnish'd = decorated or adorned
  • Printed on it are processed meats, cold cuts as tall as he is, reds and pinks, gray at the edges, garnished with parsley sprigs the size of shrubs.†  (source)
  • Beards were very fashionable at that time, and the Baron wore a number of long, soft hairs on his face that I'm sure were supposed to resemble a beard, but looked to me more like some sort of garnish, or like the thin strips of seaweed that are sometimes sprinkled onto a bowl of rice.†  (source)
    garnish = to decorate or adorn something; or the item added for decoration
  • Garnishing the inevitable platter of broiled fish was a necklace of mushrooms.†  (source)
    Garnishing = decorating or adorning
  • The waiters slide the plates in front of us with graceful hands; the food, wearing herbs and garnishes, is as dressed up as we are.†  (source)
    garnishes = decorates or adorns; or the items used for decoration
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