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Critics seized on this clumsy assertion, made during a March 1999 CNN interview, to lampoon Mr. Gore as a brazen embellisher taking credit for the innovation.

From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2012

Mr. Stein asked would-be students, repeating one of several assertions about Mr. Gore that helped stoke his reputation as a serial embellisher.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2012

The singing apple is as great an embellisher of wit as the dancing water is of beauty.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

In one place he calls Chaucer "The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English."

From English Literature for Boys and Girls by Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)

Certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners.—Coleridge.

From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Klopsch, Louis