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festooned
/ˌfɛˈstund/
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What does festooned mean?
adjective
- Decorated with a string of lights, flowers, or paper hung in a curve between two points. It can also be used more broadly to describe a place that is richly decorated or covered in something, especially for a special occasion.
verb
- simple past and past participle of festoon
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌfɛˈstund/
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Again we would wander among lofty trees through the tops of which the sun flickered on festooned serpent-like vines.
These were the nights when "curtains" hung festooned in the heavens, alive, rippling, dancing to the lilt of lightning music.
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During the immersion, the festooned coronet shuts like a flower closing its petals and the liquid is not admitted to the cavity.
These hedges are festooned with masses of clinging luxuriant creepers, among which sometimes struggles up a custard apple, an avocado pear, or a wild plum-tree.
Here we rode in a carriage decorated with flowers--yellow roses--while just in front of us was the mayor in a carriage gorgeously festooned with purple blossoms.