It's the Word of the Day podcast for July 26th.
Today's word is embellish spelled E-M-B-E-L-L-I-S-H.
Embellish is a verb.
To embellish something is to make it more appealing or attractive with fanciful or decorative details.
Here's the word used in a sentence from the Sydney Morning Herald.
Shell art isn't a new genre, it's been with us for centuries.
The Victorians often framed their family photos with shells.
The medium also came to the fore in the 1970s, when everything was embellished with shells,
from photo frames and mirrors to trinket boxes and even furniture.
The word embellish came to English by way of Anglo-French,
from the Latin word bellus, meaning beautiful.
It's in good company.
Modern language is adorned with Belous descendants.
Examples include such classics as beauty, bel, and beau.
And the beauty of Belous reaches beyond English.
Its influence is seen in the French word bel,
a word meaning beautiful, that is directly related to the English embellish.
And in Spanish, Belous is evidenced in the word bello, meaning beautiful.
With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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