festoon
v.
decorate with chains of flowers (or leaves, etc.)
n.
decorative chain (made of flowers, leaves, etc.); ornamental design (on furniture, architecture, etc.)
Festoon
For the
moth Apoda limacodes, see The Festoon Festoon (from
French feston,
Italian festone, from a Late
Latin festo, originally a festal garland, Latin festum, feast), a
wreath or
garland, and so in architecture a conventional arrangement of
flowers,
foliage or
fruit bound together and suspended by
ribbons, either from a decorated
knot, or held in the mouths of
lions, or suspended across the back of
bulls heads as in the
Temple of Vesta at
Tivoli. The motif is sometimes known as a swag when depicting fabric or linen.
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festoon
Noun
1. a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful loops
(hypernym) curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall
2. an embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on pottery or in architectural work
(hypernym) embellishment
3. flower chains suspended in loops between points
(synonym) festoonery
(hypernym) flower chain
Verb
1. decorate with strings of flowers; "The public buildings were festooned for the holiday"
(hypernym) decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
(derivation) festoonery
festoon
n.
1. a garland or wreath hanging in a depending curve
بندر وار, سہرا, ہار
2. (Arch.)
بيل بوٹا, پھول بوٹا
festoon v. a.
پھول مالا پہنانا, بندر وار باندھنا, ہار ڈالنا, سہرا باندھنا
festoon
Synonyms and related words:
arc, boughpot, bouquet, boutonniere, bow, bravery, buttonhole, catacaustic, catenary, caustic, chaplet, chiffon, circle, clinquant, conchoid, corsage, crook, curl, curve, diacaustic, ellipse, festoons, finery, flower arrangement, folderol, foofaraw, frilliness, frilling, frills, frills and furbelows, frippery, froufrou, fuss, gaiety, garland, gaudery, gilding, gilt, gingerbread, hook, hyperbola, lei, lituus, nosegay, parabola, paste, pinchbeck, posy, sinus, spray, superfluity, tinsel, tracery, trappings, trickery, trumpery, wreath
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.