Meaning

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

    Feston, Girlande

    гирля́ндаgirljánda

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

    Feston

    фестонfeston

    фесто́нfestón, гірля́ндаhirljánda

  3. A raised cable with light globes attached.

    Lichterkette

  4. 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.

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

  6. 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.

  7. Two sets of rollers used to create a buffer of material on web handling equipment.

  8. Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Zerynthia.

  9. Texturing applied to a denture to simulate human tissue.

More definitions
  • flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration
  • an embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on pottery or in architectural work
  • a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curves

Examples

3 sentences
  1. The walls are festooned with ivy.

    ruСтены увиты плющом. — odexed

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  2. The festoon lights were draped over the terrace space.

  3. They are stringing flowers together for the festoons above the doorways.

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
architecture: bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling a festoon:
Русский
By meaning 2
ornament which hangs loosely from two tacked spots:
architecture: bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling a festoon:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
ornament which hangs loosely from two tacked spots:
cable with light globes attached:

Origin

Borrowed from French feston.

Borrowed from French feston.

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Forms

plural: festoons
Singularfestoon
Pluralfestoons

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration:festoonery

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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