ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Festoon

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /fɛsˈtuːn/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Festoon is a noun meaning An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots.

Meaning

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

(architecture) A bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling such an ornament.
A raised cable with light globes attached.
(acarology) Any of a series of wrinkles on the backs of some ticks.
(manufacturing) Two sets of rollers used to create a buffer of material on web handling equipment.
Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Zerynthia.
(astronomy) 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.
(technology) 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.

He was bewildered by how the car was festooned with polka dots.

Many seats carry reservation labels, while the luggage racks are festooned with backpacks and suitcases.

A mysterious woman who shows up at a funeral more droopily festooned in black than the widow is making what is known as a fashion statement.

The tree trunks and the creepers that festooned them lost themselves in a green dusk thirty feet above him, and all about was the undergrowth.

Related dictionary entries include adorn, garlandage, tassel, garland, targe, pendant.

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