embroidery
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1 decoration with needlework 刺绣
a beautiful piece of embroidery 一件美丽的刺绣制品
He´s good at embroidery. 他擅长刺绣.
2 (fig 比喻) untrue details added for effect (为增强效果而加的)虚构细节
A little embroidery made the story quite entertaining. 增加了一点虚构细节使得故事相当有趣.