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Festoon

noun

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

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

Flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration. Synonym: festoonery.

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"Festoon" Quotes from Famous Books

... and undergrowth come down to the water's edge; the air is quivering with the songs of birds, and resonant with sweet smells; while over stumps, and dead and fallen trees, grape-vines luxuriantly festoon and cluster. Near the pretty group of French Islands, two government dredges, with their boarding barges, were moored to the Kentucky shore—waiting for coal, we were told, before resuming operations in the planting of a dike. ...

— Afloat on the Ohio - An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo • Reuben Gold Thwaites

Words linked to "Festoon" : pall, flower chain, adorn, decorate, grace, embellish, embellishment, curtain, ornament, mantle, drapery, drape, festoonery, beautify