embellishment

From embellish +‎ -ment.

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈbɛlɪʃmənt/

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embellishment (countable and uncountable, plural embellishments)

1. An act of embellishing.
2. An added touch; an ornamental addition; a flourish.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:decoration

   • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Section 3, Chapter 1:

     Reflection had given calmness to her judgment, and sobered her own opinion of Willoughby's deserts; — she wished, therefore, to declare only the simple truth, and lay open such facts as were really due to his character, without any embellishment of tenderness to lead the fancy astray.

• “embellishment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “embellishment”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.