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# garnish

«garnish» in Mova's school dictionary: **to decorate food with a small extra bit, such as parsley…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (garnish, garnishes, garnished, garnishing); noun (garnishes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To garnish is to decorate food with a small extra bit, such as parsley or a slice of lemon, to make it look nice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garnish/#m1)

2) (old use) To garnish a throne or hall is to decorate it with jewels or ornaments. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garnish/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in cooking, a sprig of parsley or a lemon slice put on a dish to make it tempting; in old tales a throne or hall decorated with gems

### examples

- Mum garnished the fish with a sprig of parsley. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garnish/#x1)
- Add a lemon slice to garnish the cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garnish/#x2)
- The throne was garnished with pearls and diamonds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garnish/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty; and the gold was gold of Parvaim.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.42/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «garnish» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garnish/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.