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festoon
/fɛsˈtuːn/
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What does festoon mean?
noun
- 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.
More meanings (10)
noun
- 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
- To decorate as if with ornaments, such as garlands or chains, which hang loosely from two tacked spots.
- To make festoons.
- To decorate or bedeck abundantly.
- To apply texturing to (a denture) to simulate human tissue.
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IPA pronunciation
/fɛsˈtuːn/
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Here we go in a flung festoon, Half-way up to the jealous moon!
“But I am not a fortune-teller,” he said, letting his head drop into a festoon of towel, and towelling away at his two ears.
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Between her agitation, and her natural awkwardness in getting out of the cart, Peggotty was making a most extraordinary festoon of herself, but I felt too blank and strange to tell her so.
From the chocks it hangs in a slight festoon over the bows, and is then passed inside the boat again; and some ten or twenty fathoms (called box-line) being coiled …
Summer squashes almost in their golden blossom; cucumbers, now evincing a tendency to spread away from the main stock, and ramble far and wide; two or three rows of string-beans and as many more that were about to festoon themselves on poles; tomatoes, occupying a site so sheltered and sunny that the plants were already gigantic, and promised an early and abundant harvest.