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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 person before you," continued Chou-hu, "is a barber and embellisher of pig-tails from the street leading to the Three-tiered Pagoda of Eggs.

From Kai Lung's Golden Hours by Bramah, Ernest

"Love is a great embellisher," said Mrs. Schwartz, with a gay smile, and the conversation passed to more general topics.

From Evenings at Donaldson Manor Or, The Christmas Guest by McIntosh, Maria J. (Maria Jane)

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)