Festooning

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Material with which something is festooned.

    "The second tier of boxes, still with the red festoonings and the luxuriance of creeping vines, had, as its chief adornment, holly, laurel, and cypress trees of irregular height[…]"

  2. 2
    The act of honeybees to join together in a chain.

    "To construct chains and give the appearance of a festoon, bees engage in a process known as festooning."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of festoon form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

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"The second tier of boxes, still with the red festoonings and the luxuriance of creeping vines, had, as its chief adornment, holly, laurel, and cypress trees of irregular height[…]"

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