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单词 to emboss
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to emboss (out)
b. figurative. to emboss (out): to inflate (style), render tumid; to give exaggerated prominence to.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > embellish [verb (transitive)] > make bombastic
to emboss1564
bombast1573
starch1656
tumefy1677
1564 Briefe Exam. *iiij b Ye embosse out your glorious stiles.
1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare i. 48 It hath pleased M. Hardinge thus to coloure, and to embosse out this aunciente Father.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 94/2 Thinking by their embossed speech to tickle the eares and harts of the yoong princes.
1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 39 Embossed Language tickles the eares.
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