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festoon

UK/fɛsˈtuːn/US/fɛsˈtuːn/
verbC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,408 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: festoons, festooned

To festoon is to hang decorations all over something. Festooned with flags, festoon the hall, festooned in lights.

It is nearly always passive and usually implies more decoration than was strictly needed. As a noun a festoon is a chain of flowers or cloth hung in a curve between two points, which is where the verb comes from.

Lionel Allorge · CC BY-SA 3.0

Definitions of festoon

  1. 1verbfestoonTo hang decorations all over something.C2

    “The children festooned the classroom with paper chains and balloons for the party.”

festoon is a decorating.

Where it comes from

  1. French

    feston

  2. English, today

    festoon

Borrowed from French feston.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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festoon in the wild

  • Zerynthia rumina, the Spanish festoon, is a butterfly belonging to the family Papilionidae.

    Zerynthia rumina

  • Zerynthia polyxena, the southern festoon, is a butterfly belonging to the butterfly family Papilionidae.

    Zerynthia polyxena

  • Apoda limacodes, also known as the festoon, is a species of moth of the family Limacodidae.

    Apoda limacodes

  • The neck is usually decorated with a lotus-palmette festoon or cross.

    Tyrrhenian amphora

  • At times, a frieze is replaced with a vegetal band, a continuous lotus-palmette festoon.

    Tyrrhenian amphora

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.