festoon
IPA: fɛstˈun
noun
- An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots.
- (architecture) A bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling such an ornament.
- A raised cable with light globes attached.
- (astronomy) 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.
- (acarology) Any of a series of wrinkles on the backs of some ticks.
- (technology) 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.
- (manufacturing) Two sets of rollers used to create a buffer of material on web handling equipment.
- Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Zerynthia.
- (dentistry) Texturing applied to a denture to simulate human tissue.
verb
- To decorate with ornaments, such as garlands or chains, which hang loosely from two tacked spots.
- To make festoons.
- To decorate or bedeck abundantly.
- (dentistry, transitive) To apply texturing to (a denture) to simulate human tissue.
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Examples of "festoon" in Sentences
- (Come to think of it, anything that involves the word "festoon" is probably a bad idea.)
- No power on earth, he declared, would induce him to attempt to "festoon" a hole in the accepted fashion.
- ---- The next ceremony was, the feast or banquet which was prepared in a kind of festoon, upon the side of the plain.
- American flags made in the studio's upholstery department festoon storefronts and Spanish moss from the greenery department drips over trees.
- From this Koubba, the palm plantations extend southward and form a kind of festoon with the Keteya group, which is protected on the south-west by a hill of white sand.
- The garland, or festoon, which is carried through, and sustained, as before stated, by each of the four figures, is composed of every flower indigenous to this part of the land, and introduced emblematically to the time in which they severally bloom.
- Also included is an impressive Indian multi-strand pearl and turquoise necklace, the front designed as a stylised peacock, which is estimated at $15,000-25,000, a cultured pearl and paste 'festoon' brooch which was a gift from the late Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
- Glummer still was the plight of tiny homosexual Ben Mitchell, whose response to being caught kissing hooded squeeze Duncan was to festoon the Square with swirling wreaths of misspelled accusations "BIGGOT" and make Patrick's trilby spin with threats of the "watch it, mister!" genus.
- The story of Dave Johnson—president of the 100-year-old, fourth-generation family-owned business, Summitville Tiles, Inc. a ceramic tile and brick manufacturer whose products festoon both the roof of the White House and the floors of McDonald's restaurants around the world—is typical.
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