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festoon
v. decorate with chains of flowers (or leaves, etc.)
 
n. decorative chain (made of flowers, leaves, etc.); ornamental design (on furniture, architecture, etc.)


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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 flowersfoliage 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


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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

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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.

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