festoon
Other forms: festoons; festooned; festooning
A festoon is a decorative string of flowers that you drape across a room, dropping in curves between support points. If you're decorating for Halloween, why not try a creatively spooky festoon of dried roses covered in cobwebs?
Festoon probably comes from the Italian word festone, for "feast," and if you can imagine an Italian courtyard strung up with flowers and lanterns, then you have a sense of what it means to festoon a place. A noun or a verb, festoon can mean the decoration itself, or the work of putting it up. Festoons don't strictly have to be made of flowers, though they usually are. You can festoon with fabric too, or paper chains. Or cobwebs.
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an embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on pottery or in architectural work
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type of:
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embellishment
a superfluous ornament
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embellishment
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a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curves
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flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration
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synonyms:
festoonery
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type of:
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flower chain
flowers strung together in a chain
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flower chain
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decorate with strings of flowers
Vocabulary lists containing festoon
Oyuna of the Kerait tribe recounts how she pursued her dream of racing across the Mongolian steppes as a youth despite being crippled by a horse.
French for "Fat Tuesday," Mardi Gras originated as a celebration of spring and evolved into an indulgent period often followed by fasting and sacrifice. It is an opportunity to have some Fun, Food, and Faith.
In this fifth and final book of the series The Trials of Apollo, Lester must defeat Nero without causing massive collateral damage to Manhattan.
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