Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Embellish

Embellish , transitive verb

[Old English embelisen, embelisshen, French embellir; pref. em- (Latin in) + bel, beau, beautiful. See Beauty.]

To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors.