(n.) The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment.
(n.) That which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration; as, pictorial embellishments.
Example Sentences:
(1) The symptom of penis captivus during sexual intercourse has had a largely hearsay existence in medical history, and rumour has embellished the drama of its occurrence.
(2) Soldado could have embellished his open-play haul just before that but glanced a header inches wide from a Paulinho cross.
(3) Hunt embellished it with a sad little joke about his repeated failure to interest James in his own pet projects: superfast broadband and local TV.
(4) There were occasional literal and verbal paraphasic errors, but no completion phenomenon, embellishment or significant echolalia.
(5) But the main focus will be attempts to revive Arab-Israeli peace talks along the lines of the 2002 Saudi initiative, as developed recently by King Abdullah of Jordan and embellished by Obama.
(6) By now, Galeano had an established voice as a writer, and he soon settled down to write a series of books that embellished the formula that had proved so successful with Open Veins, combining contemporary observations with historical anecdote.
(7) So if he embellished this, how can you believe the rest?
(8) Some analysts suspect political players have deliberately leaked information amid the jockeying for position; and that details – such as a claim that the two young women were wholly or semi-naked – may have been embellished for maximum damage.
(9) Thus both the selective loss of entire branches and the selective embellishment of others occur during the development of these somatosensory cortical structures.
(10) The basilica was rebuilt in the 12th century by Pope Innocent II and, at the end of the 13th century, Pietro Cavallini embellished the apse with six mosaic panels of scenes from the life of Mary.
(11) He embellished the party line with his own metaphors and rhetorical swirls.
(12) The general has a (perhaps embellished) reputation for monk-like asceticism, eating once a day and banning alcohol from his headquarters in Kabul.
(13) Survival and event-free rates in long-term follow-up period were markedly embellished by the types of prosthesis.
(14) This was a mature collection for sass & bide, neatly styled (a collaboration between Heidi Middleton, Sarah-Jane Clarke and renowned stylist Vanessa Traina) with its polished blazers, colour-blocked ensembles and embellished mini-dresses.
(15) The style even included high-collared blouses with "ties" that were inch-wide strips of material that clipped around the neck and were often embellished with a single fabric flower.
(16) The club denied it and a Ukip spokesman said he had played for the Tranmere schoolboy and youth teams, adding that the embellishment was an “innocent mistake” by a press officer.
(17) Third, the argument is embellished with emotive claims about how this ruling will fragment, chill, choke, censor, or somehow damage the internet.
(18) The embellishment comes from telling it over and over again, letting your brain seek out the funny.
(19) West Ham came close to embellishing their lead on the half-hour when Vaz Tê skittered down the right and cut the ball back to O'Neil, whose curling shot from the edge of the area forced a fine save from Marshall.
(20) He appears to be intolerant of workers who choose to embellish their bodies with works of art, however small or innocuous.
Roulade
Definition:
(n.) A smoothly running passage of short notes (as semiquavers, or sixteenths) uniformly grouped, sung upon one long syllable, as in Handel's oratorios.
Example Sentences:
(1) Berry meringue roulade Meringue, thick cream and berries – it's an ambrosial combination.
(2) I always piled my plate a little too high, yet still had room for puds of homemade elderflower ice-cream, peach tart or meringue roulade.
(3) The Great British Bake Off (which starts again tonight) has surely been instrumental in inspiring young bakers to don an apron at home and attempt to create the perfect roulade or whip up a creme brulee.
(4) But all they have generated is more meetings, which will continue until the delegates, surrounded by rising waters, have eaten the last rare dove, exquisitely presented with an olive leaf roulade.
(5) A berry meringue roulade to whip sad whites into shape and a thick, sharp lemon curd to save the souls of any feckless yolks left loitering about your fridge.
(6) 1 quantity cooked roulade meringue, as per the recipe above 300ml double cream 40g sugar 100-150g lemon curd, see recipe above 1 Whip the cream and sugar to soft peaks and carefully fold through the lemon curd, to taste.
(7) As you roll up the sponge, don't worry if it cracks – that is quite normal and all part of the charm of a home-baked roulade.
(8) 2 Spread the meringue with this mixture and roll up, as in the berry roulade recipe above.
(9) Lemon meringue roulade This is the bare bones of a lemon meringue pie – sharp, sunny lemon curd, voluminous meringue – without the fuss of having to mess around with a pastry crust.
(10) From The Great British Bake Off: Everyday (BBC Books, RRP £20) Mary Berry's chocolate roulade Mary Berry's chocolate roulade.
(11) Caterers will tantalise you, M&S roulades look so easy, but remember that parties tend to be restricted in space, so having guests breathing crab over one another will clear the room.
(12) And, if you have whole eggs crying out to be put to good use, lemon meringue roulade will make something quite extraordinary of whites and yolks alike.