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Verb
/fesˈto͞on/,
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festoons, plural;
  1. Adorn (a place) with chains, garlands, or other decorations
    • - the room was festooned with balloons and streamers
Noun
  1. A chain or garland of flowers, leaves, or ribbons, hung in a curve as a decoration

  2. A carved or molded ornament representing such a garland


  1. a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curves
  2. decorate with strings of flowers; "The public buildings were festooned for the holiday"
  3. an embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on pottery or in architectural work
  4. flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration
  5. Festoon (from French feston, Italian festone, from a Late Latin festo, originally a festal garland, Latin festum, feast), a wreath or garland, and so in architecture a conventional arrangement of flowers, foliage or fruit bound together and suspended by ribbons, either from a decorated knot, or ...
  6. The Festoon (Apoda limacodes) is a moth of the family Limacodidae. It is found in Europe.
  7. 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; 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 ...
  8. (festooned) to adorn or hang with decorations such as wreaths or garlands
  9. (Festoons) A string or garland of leaves or flowers suspended in a curve between two points.
  10. (Festoons) A string of ribbon, tinsel, small flags, pennants, pinwheels, or similar devices.
  11. (festoons) Sclerites on the posterior margin of the opisthosoma of certain hard ticks.
  12. (festoons) in some ixodid ticks; small portions of the ventral posterior body margin, marked by delicate grooves, usually rectangular.
  13. A unique cluster of bees that link themselves together by their tarsi (feet) in a loose network between combs in a hive. Normally, these are aggregates of wax-producing bees.
  14. An arrangement of glass drops or beads draped and hung across or down a glass chandelier, or sometimes a piece of solid glass shaped into a swag. Also known as a garland.
  15. (English) A decorative chain, draped between two objects; painted festoons on church walls in Spanish America often depicted flowers and ribbons strung between two urns.
  16. Set of parallel ridges formed on the surface of lava flows.
  17. or Swag Renaissance and Neoclassical motif in the shape of a suspended loop of drapery or a garland of fruit and flowers.
  18. a garland of leaves or ribbons suspended in a loop between two points; festoons are often painted or sculpted, the latter particularly in friezes of the Corinthian order.
  19. A type of necklace that drapes in the front.
  20. A fabric draped between two points at the top of a window.
  21. A decorative drapery treatment of folded fabric that hangs in a graceful curve and frames the top of a window.
  22. A loop of ribbons or jewels hanging from 2 places.
  23. A length of garland, foliage, flowers or branches that are entwined or bound together, usually hanging in a curve between two points.
  24. Ornamental garland, shown as if suspended from both ends. Compare swag.
  25. A piece of fabric supported at the left & right and allowed to hang lower in the middle. top