•to add edible fat or other additive to a finished dish to make it tastier [with accusative ‘what’] · to embellish (to dye with some color for decoration)
köken: From Middle High German smücken, smucken (“to press against oneself, contract”), from Old High German *smucken (whence firsmucken (“to crush”)), from a formation related to modern German schmiegen (“to nestle up”); see there for more.
Die Hauptfassade war mit einem griechischen Giebel und dorischen Säulen geschmückt worden, […]