Meanings (ES + gloss)
guarnición
Something added for embellishment.
1718, Matthew Prior, Alma: or, The Progress of the Mind, Canto 1, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 333, First Poets, all the World agrees, Write half to prof…
This hard-headed old Overreach approved of the sentimental song, as the suitable garnish for girls, and also as fundamentally fine, sentiment being the right thing for a song.
guarnición
Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
guarnecer
To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.
1710, Joseph Addison, The Tatler, No. 163, 25 April, 1710, Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1754, p. 165, […] as that admirable writer has the best and worst verses of any among our English p…
And all within with flowres was garnished,
guarnecer
To ornament with something placed around it.
a dish garnished with a sprig/spray of parsley
guarnecer
To furnish; to supply.
By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
[…] the good-humoured, affectionate-hearted Godfrey Cass was fast becoming a bitter man, visited by cruel wishes, that seemed to enter, and depart, and enter again, like demons who…
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