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Festoon
noun, verb
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots.
- 2 flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration wordnet
- 3 A bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling such an ornament.
"The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise."
- 4 an embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on pottery or in architectural work wordnet
- 5 A raised cable with light globes attached.
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- 6 a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curves wordnet
- 7 A cloud on Jupiter that hangs out of its home belt or zone into an adjacent area forming a curved finger-like image or a complete loop back to its home belt or zone.
- 8 Any of a series of wrinkles on the backs of some ticks.
- 9 A specific style of electric light bulb consisting of a cylindrical enclosure with two points of contact on either end providing power to the filament or diode.
- 10 Two sets of rollers used to create a buffer of material on web handling equipment.
- 11 Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Zerynthia.
- 12 Texturing applied to a denture to simulate human tissue.
Verb
- 1 To decorate as if with ornaments, such as garlands or chains, which hang loosely from two tacked spots.
"The tree trunks and the creepers that festooned them lost themselves in a green dusk thirty feet above him, and all about was the undergrowth."
- 2 decorate with strings of flowers wordnet
- 3 To make festoons.
- 4 To decorate or bedeck abundantly.
"He was bewildered by how the car was festooned with polka dots."
- 5 To apply texturing to (a denture) to simulate human tissue. transitive
Etymology
Etymology 1
From French feston.
Etymology 2
From French feston.
See also for "festoon"
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