Embellishment vs Frills - What's the difference?
embellishment | frills | Related terms |
An unnecessarily added touch, an ornamental addition, a flourish.
As nouns the difference between embellishment and frills
is that embellishment is an unnecessarily added touch, an ornamental addition, a flourish while frills is plural of lang=en.embellishment
English
Noun
(en noun)- 1811' ''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.'' Jane Austen, ''Sense and Sensibility , Section 3,
Chapter 1.