noun. A string or garland, as of leaves or flowers, suspended in a loop or curve between two points.

noun. A representation of such a string or garland, as in painting or sculpture.

transitive verb. To decorate with or as if with festoons; hang festoons on.

transitive verb. To form or make into festoons.

To form in festoons; adorn with festoons; connect by festoons.

noun. A British collectors' name for a European limacodid moth, Apoda testudo, yellow-brown in color with narrow brown stripes arranged like a festoon.

noun. A string or chain of any material suspended between two points; specifically, a chain or garland of flowers, ribbons, foliage, etc., suspended so as to form one or more depending curves.

noun. In architecture, a sculptured ornament in imitation of a garland of fruits, leaves, or flowers suspended between two points; an encarpus. See cut under encarpus.

noun. A form of drooping cloud sometimes seen on the under surface of dense cirro-stratus clouds. Also called pocky cloud.

noun. In ornithology, specifically, a lobe on the cutting edge of a hawk's beak.

transitive verb. To form in festoons, or to adorn with festoons.

noun. A garland or wreath hanging in a depending curve, used in decoration for festivals, etc.; anything arranged in this way.

noun. A carved ornament consisting of flowers, and leaves, intermixed or twisted together, wound with a ribbon, and hanging or depending in a natural curve. See Illust. of Bucranium.

noun. An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots.

noun. A bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling such an ornament.

noun. A raised cable with light globes attached.

noun. 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.

noun. Any of a series of wrinkles on the backs of some ticks.

verb. To hang ornaments, such as garlands or chains, which hang loosely from two tacked spots.

verb. To make festoons.

verb. To decorate or bedeck abundantly.

noun. a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curves

verb. decorate with strings of flowers

noun. an embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on pottery or in architectural work

noun. flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration

"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."

festoon-and-tassel border  

festooned  festooning  

adorn  beautify  curtain  decorate  drape  

Bethune  Boone  Calhoun  June  Karun  

barrelful  basketful  birdcall  brush-stroke  cartload  

arc  boughpot  bouquet  boutonniere  bow  

bucranium  

festooned  festooning  festoons