Both Uses of
embellish
in
Persuasion, by Jane Austen
- She heard it all under embellishment.†
Chpt 15 *embellishment = something added to increase attractiveness or interest
- Promising to be with them the whole of the following morning, therefore, 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 22embellishments = things added to make something more attractive or interesting
Definition:
add to something -- typically to make it more attractive or interesting