festooning

festooning is the present participle and gerund of festoon.

Noun

festooning (plural festoonings)

Material with which something is festooned.
- The second tier of boxes, still with the red festoonings and the luxuriance of creeping vines, had, as its chief adornment, holly, laurel, and cypress trees of irregular height[…]1890, Chauncey Depew, Titled Americans
The act of honeybees to join together in a chain.
- To construct chains and give the appearance of a festoon, bees engage in a process known as festooning.(Can we date this quote?), Willie Oosthuizen, Smiley Honey, What is Festooning?

festoon (third-person singular simple present festoons, present participle festooning, simple past and past participle festooned)

To decorate as if with ornaments, such as garlands or chains, which hang loosely from two tacked spots.
- The tree trunks and the creepers that festooned them lost themselves in a green dusk thirty feet above him, and all about was the undergrowth.1954, William Golding, chapter 3, in Lord of the Flies, →ISBN, page 48
To make festoons.
To decorate or bedeck abundantly.
- He was bewildered by how the car was festooned with polka dots.
(transitive) To apply texturing to (a denture) to simulate human tissue.

plural	festoonings

What does festooning mean?: Festooning means material with which something is festooned.
What is festooning the present participle and gerund of?: Festooning is the present participle and gerund of festoon.
What part of speech is festooning?: Festooning is a noun.
What is the plural of festooning?: The plural of festooning is festoonings.

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