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Trimming vs Embellishment - What's the difference?

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Trimming is a related term of embellishment.


As nouns the difference between trimming and embellishment

is that trimming is the act of someone who trims while embellishment is an unnecessarily added touch, an ornamental addition, a flourish.

As a verb trimming

is .

trimming

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of someone who trims.
    • I gave a good trimming to my elderly neighbour's hedges.
  • Material that is removed by someone trimming something, as a piece of steak.
  • :He gave the trimmings to the dog under the kitchen table.
  • An accompaniment to a meal.
  • :Christmas dinner with all the trimmings
  • (colloquial, dated) A reprimand or chastisting.
    • to give a boy a trimming

    Verb

    (head)
  • :I am helping my elderly neighbour by trimming his hedge.

    • embellishment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An unnecessarily added touch, an ornamental addition, a flourish.
    • 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.