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    Use "festoon" in a sentence

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    festoon


    1. And what better way to highlight a mole than to festoon it with hair? That says in no uncertain terms to everyone, “Look! Not only do I have this quite unsightly ‘thing’ but there are these filaments waving in the breeze to draw your attention to it!” Speaking of moles, I have but one question: Why?


    2. "But I am not a fortune-teller," he said, letting his head drop into a festoon of towel, and towelling away at his two ears


    3. The room Werner and Bernd are given, on the top floor of a requisitioned hotel in the city within the walls, is like a place that time wants no part of: three-hundred-year-old stucco quatrefoils and palmate capitals and spiraling horns of fruit festoon the ceiling


    4. From the chocks it hangs in a slight festoon over the bows, and is then passed inside the boat again; and some ten or twenty fathoms (called box-line) being coiled upon the box in the bows, it continues its way to the gunwale still a little further aft, and is then attached to the short-warp—the rope which is immediately connected with the harpoon; but previous to that connexion, the short-warp goes through sundry mystifications too tedious to detail


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    Synonyms for "festoon"

    festoon festoonery

    "festoon" definitions

    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


    decorate with strings of flowers