festoon
noun
- decoration of a wreath or garland hanging from two points
verb
- to link with festoons
- decorate
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.
- An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots.
- 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.”
- A raised cable with light globes attached.
- 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.
- Any of a series of wrinkles on the backs of some ticks.
- 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.
- Two sets of rollers used to create a buffer of material on web handling equipment.
- Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Zerynthia.
- 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.
- 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.”
- To make festoons.
- 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.”
- To apply texturing to (a denture) to simulate human tissue.