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festoon

noun

  1. decoration of a wreath or garland hanging from two points
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verb

  1. to link with festoons
  2. decorate
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /fɛsˈtuːn/

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁stosder. Proto-Italic *θēstos Proto-Italic *fēstosder. Late Latin fēstus Late Latin fēsta Late Latin fēsta Italian festa Proto-Indo-European *-ōder. Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.? Latin -ōnem Italian -one Italian festonebor. French festonbor. English festoon Borrowed from French feston.

  1. An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots.
  2. 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.

  3. A raised cable with light globes attached.
  4. 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.
  5. Any of a series of wrinkles on the backs of some ticks.
  6. 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.
  7. Two sets of rollers used to create a buffer of material on web handling equipment.
  8. Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Zerynthia.
  9. Texturing applied to a denture to simulate human tissue.

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁stosder. Proto-Italic *θēstos Proto-Italic *fēstosder. Late Latin fēstus Late Latin fēsta Late Latin fēsta Italian festa Proto-Indo-European *-ōder. Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.? Latin -ōnem Italian -one Italian festonebor. French festonbor. English festoon Borrowed from French feston.

  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. To make festoons.
  3. To decorate or bedeck abundantly.

    He was bewildered by how the car was festooned with polka dots.

    A mysterious woman who shows up at a funeral more droopily festooned in black than the widow is making what is known as a fashion statement.

  4. To apply texturing to (a denture) to simulate human tissue.