festoon
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁stosder.
Proto-Italic *θēstos
Proto-Italic *fēstosder.
Late Latin fēstus
Late Latin fēsta
Late Latin fēsta
Italian festa
Proto-Indo-European *-ōder.
Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.?
Latin -ōnem
Italian -one
Italian festonebor.
French festonbor.
English festoon
Borrowed from French feston.
Inflected forms:
form: festoons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: festoons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: festooning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: festooned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: festooned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots.
pos: noun
gloss: A bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling such an ornament.
pos: noun
examples: The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
gloss: A raised cable with light globes attached.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of a series of wrinkles on the backs of some ticks.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: Two sets of rollers used to create a buffer of material on web handling equipment.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Zerynthia.
pos: noun
gloss: Texturing applied to a denture to simulate human tissue.
pos: noun
gloss: To decorate as if with ornaments, such as garlands or chains, which hang loosely from two tacked spots.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To make festoons.
pos: verb
gloss: To decorate or bedeck abundantly.
pos: verb
examples: He was bewildered by how the car was festooned with polka dots.
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.
Some teachers festoon every spare inch of wall with vocabulary choices or maths techniques to use, which look great at first, but to some children might appear quite daunting. You'll probably see unfamiliar acronyms such as Walt (We Are Learning To). Be sure to ask what they stand for and how they are used in practice.
Most mistletoes are "hemiparasites." This means they don't rely on their hosts for all their needs: Instead, they harvest the sun's energy to make some sugars for themselves. Nonetheless, if you're a tree, you don't want to be festooned with them. Two or three shouldn't be a problem, but dozens of mistletoes can lead to water stress, insect infestation or even death.
The room into which Lieutenant Said led Cora was obviously the debriefing room of a lab complex. Schematics models, handwritten papers, and extra haptic terminals festooned the walls, and the circular table had a built-in holo projector.
Many seats carry reservation labels, while the luggage racks are festooned with backpacks and suitcases.
gloss: To apply texturing to (a denture) to simulate human tissue.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: festooner
festoonery
festoon pine
festoony
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: ozdobit
lang: Czech
word: vyzdobit