Verb

(es)

To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.

The old book cover was embellished with golden letters

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To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality, to distort.

to embellish a story, the truth

Verb

(ambitransitive) To hang round or about; depend; suspend; drape.

*1824 , Richard Johnson, The renowned history of the seven champions of Christendom :

Now seven times had frosty-bearded Winter covered both herbs and flowers with snow, and behung the trees with crystal icicles, since the unfortunate St. George beheld the cheerful light of heaven, but lived obscure in a dismal dungeon, [...]

*1890 , Robert Herrick, William Carew Hazlitt, Hesperides :

And with rich clusters (hid among The leaves) her temples I behung : [...]

To ornament; embellish.

* 1874 , Plutarch, John Dryden, Arthur Hugh Clough, Plutarch's lives :

Moreover, when they have introduced the bride, they spread a fleece under her; and she, having brought in with her a distaff and a spindle, all behangs her husband's door with woollen yarn?