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• The ceiling wasn’t a crystaled array of rock forms, festooned with limestone stalactites resplendent in rainbow colors.1989 April, J.D. Bodine [pseudonym; Robert Vaughan], chapter 16, in White Water Death (Quinn’s Raiders; 5), New York, N.Y.: Lynx Books…. From the entry crystaled
• From the pulpit festooned fancifully in prelatial purple the benediction of Cardinal Doppio-Mignoni would shortly fall.1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 106. From the entry prelatial
• There is a seau painted in polychrome with festoons and masks, in the Sevres Museum, inscribed Cartus.1908, William Chaffers, Frederick Litchfield, Marks & Monograms on European and Oriental Pottery and Porcelain with Historical Notices of…. From the entry seau
• Once a year, the local department store would festoon the window displays with twinkly lights and fake garland.2020 June 18, Simon Doonan, “Let's Return to the Exuberance of Window Shopping”, in Town & Country. From the entry zhoosh
• The ornate scutums and the festoons in the Ixodidæ. 3.1960, John Hendrick Whitlock, Diagnosis of Veterinary Parasitisms, Lea & Febiger, page 62. From the entry scutums
• No longer was it team against team, but all Oakland against all San Francisco, festooned with a free-for-all fight.1913 October, Jack London, The Valley of the Moon, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC. From the entry free-for-all
• Tall and lissom, she was sheathed from the bosom downwards in flamingo silk, and she was liberally festooned with emeralds.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson. From the entry lissom
• The walls were festooned with silver and white tinfoily stuff, and on every table stood a tall slim vase, spilling over with sprayed silver flowers.2011, Molly Hopkins, It Happened in Paris, page 379. From the entry tinfoily
• Partridge Fine Art of London has a carved and gilded rococo chimneypiece festooned with Ho-Ho birds, garlands of flowers, fruit and female masks.2007 February 9, Wendy Moonan, “Relics of the 19th Century, in a Sentimental Mood”, in New York Times. From the entry chimneypiece
• At one end of the lot, there’s a row of customized tourbuses in various states of repair, hand-painted and festooned with insignia and flags.1994, David Shenk, Steve Silberman, Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 215. From the entry tourbus
• Travel by luxurious jet to a town where time stands still and the houses are festooned with bright streamers for the ancient Summer Star festival.1972, The New Yorker. From the entry time stands still
• The fire escapes were festooned with varicoloured washing and all the windows were wide open and the window-sills were hung with bedding.1930, Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace, Part III, Chapter II, page 264. From the entry varicoloured
• It was all cheap and incredibly tawdry, from the festoons of paper roses on the walls to the flash of paste jewels in make-believe crowns.1917, Alice Hegan Rice, chapter 20, in Calvary Alley. From the entry tawdry
• The engagement photos were set in a leafy bower festooned with pink and white roses, anemones, lilies and delphinium, like something straight out of an enchanted garden.2025 August 27, Vanessa Friedman, “The Ralph Lauren Look of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Engagement Photos”, in The New York Times, New…. From the entry anemone
• All these were transferred to ceilings, together with laurelling, small floral festoons and patterae, traced on a small scale, in low relief and thin lines, widely but sparsely distributed.2015, W Verrall, The Modern Plasterer, →ISBN, page 35. From the entry laurelling
• The Lord-Protector at the vanguard tipped back his helm and nodded gallantly, and ladies threw scarves and favors until his horse was festooned like a maypole.2002, Jim Bishop, “Goblin King”, in Jess Lebow, editor, The Secrets of Magic, Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN, page 104. From the entry warmaster

Meaning of festoon

1. noun An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots.
2. noun A bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling such an ornament.
3. noun A raised cable with light globes attached.

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How do you use festoon in a sentence?

Festoon is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He was bewildered by how the car was festooned with polka dots.”

What is a short sentence with festoon?

“The ornate scutums and the festoons in the Ixodidæ. 3.”

What does festoon mean?

Festoon means an ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots.