How To Use Festoon In A Sentence

Festoons of golden rope hung like blonde locks from one of the balconies.
Standing on my toes and moving slowly toward the back of the house, I saw rooms festooned with crewelwork wall hangings and hunting prints. Hollywood Nocturne
The inside gatefold of McCartney, the former Beatle's first recording apart from his legendary group, was festooned with a collage of family photos.
She’s tired of seeing what she calls my boar’s nest at my end of the table festooned with stacked books, medical articles, and newspapers, so she’s making me actually, she asked me very nicely go through them – which is my plan this weekend – and get rid of them. Bougainvillea in bloom | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
All streets leading to the holy river are decorated with colorful festoons and banners.

Tops and belts were festooned with perspex, while prints were individually developed and printed on sweaters, T-shirts and more leather.
She was festooned with bangles, rings, necklaces, earrings and jewellery.
Only flicker bulbs and festoons were seen around the premises.
Where once the harbour might have had a currach or two tied up, the inlet is now festooned with yachts and dinghies and motor boats and punts of all shapes and sizes.
These were substantially built of timber and talipots, thatched with cadjans and bamboo leaves, and festooned and decorated as the Singhalese only can decorate - leaves, flowers and fruit being entwined together with so much delicacy and airy tastefulness as to impart an almost fairy-like form to the pavilion.
And I often wonder about the Nick and Nora who formerly owned my funky old cocktail set - a shaker and ice dish festooned with dancing pink elephants.
Those who attended were greeted with a splendid display of colour with helium balloons, banners and flags festooning the walls of the Glenside.
Ancient dust and grimy spiderwebs festooned her coverall.
Also, in London I recently walked along a road where right next to the quite narrow footpath is a building whose walls are festooned with notices saying that it is a prohibited place (I passed within a foot of at least one notice), yet numerous people were walking along that road and regularly do so. David Cameron's reversion to type will help Lib Dems
It was a cosy atmosphere inside Coffee Pot, which was decked up with balloons, festoons and buntings, besides a decorated Christmas tree and crib set.
The story of Dave Johnson—president of the 100-year-old, fourth-generation family-owned business, Summitville Tiles, Inc. a ceramic tile and brick manufacturer whose products festoon both the roof of the White House and the floors of McDonald's restaurants around the world—is typical. Ohio Shows the Way on Death Tax Repeal
Quantitatively, though, the vast majority of cases involve the interpretation of ordinary laws, many of them dauntingly convoluted, many others festooned with decades of glosses by judges of varying perceptiveness writing opinions of varying clarity. Current Affairs
Even the rope leading down was covered in barnacles and the wreck itself was festooned in soft corals and shellfish.
London is festooned in flags and banners. Times, Sunday Times
The Colonel was invariably festooned in the fruits of Bo-Bo's labours and - if unusual - her labours were most accomplished.
The queen's bedchamber sits daintily festooned with floral pinks and lilacs in a combination with gold, overlooking the south parterre.
To queue is glorious," reads a new catchphrase festooned across Beijing as part of the government's frantic push to improve social etiquette for the Olympics. Archive 2008-08-10
A soldier's soldier, he liked to be photographed in a combat jacket festooned with grenades and found his four-star commands frustrating.
On the plains, the banks of rivers and billabongs were festooned with tall reeds and wild tangles of coolabah, swamp oak and river gum roots.
It is no accident therefore that this body of work is liberally festooned with skulls; populated by zombies, snarling wolves, vipers, black cats, and gestures towards a sort of apostrophized occultism. Psychedelic Denver
At the foot they substituted the base in place of a shoe; in the capital they placed the volutes, hanging down at the right and left like curly ringlets, and ornamented its front with cymatia and with festoons of fruit arranged in place of hair, while they brought the flutes down the whole shaft, falling like the folds in the robes worn by matrons. The Ten Books on Architecture
Nevertheless, Alexai Ybreska gazed upon the weed-festooned mound with a beam of satisfaction.
She festoons the table with elegant ephemera - the living room's silver-painted eucalyptus garland is repeated on the dining room's chandelier - and puts out a buffet of festive treats.
He was preceded by Black Rod, Garter King of Arms, girt in an Alice in Wonderland tabard, festooned with harps and other armorial devices. The peerless John Prescott takes his place in House Of Lords
Boucher's pictures are festooned with swags of cupidons instead of the fruit and flowers of his decorative predecessors such as Jan Brueghel.
Photographs of his career festooned the walls, and albums would be brought from the back room at the merest beckoning. Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing
Among them are Queen Elizabeth II, Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Sir John A. MacDonald festooned in mink, beaver, muskrat, seal and rabbit.
He is, after all, wearing a knick-knack festooned with their skeleton-and-roses logo. Times, Sunday Times
Some of this unique breed of bunk-up hail from a more-is-more school of interior design, festooned with rich fabrics and loaded with exotic embellishments. Juliet Kinsman: Morocco Forte (PHOTOS)
Its red-orange buildings float on their reflections in the tidal water, as the festooned fishing boats arrive thorough the giant torii gateway framing the entrance of the bay for the annual blessing of the fishing fleet.
From this Koubba, the palm plantations extend southward and form a kind of festoon with the Keteya group, which is protected on the south-west by a hill of white sand. The Caravan Route between Egypt and Syria
At the centre of the front of Croker's enormous sideboard is a carved vase full of flowers flanked by great seaweedy festoons of fruit, flowers and foliage.
The largest piece of art was a working carousel that blew bubbles and was festooned with fake animals, flowers and ribbons - literally a maypole come to life.
The house is festooned with everything from the snarling Rex to corpses rising out of the lawn.
The immediate area is festooned with posters calling for the clean-up.
A profusion of mosses, liverworts, lichens and ferns cover the woodland floor and festoon tree trunks and branches.
Again, she was festooned with the contents of the treasure chest - the terrible red leather box.
It was covered with inscriptions from top to base, in vivid white and blue, save where a vast and glaring kinematograph transparency presented a realistic New Testament scene, and where a vast festoon of black to show that the popular religion followed the popular politics, hung across the lettering Graham had already become familiar with the phonotype writing and these inscriptions arrested him, being to his sense for the most part almost incredible blasphemy. When the Sleeper Wakes
Huge boulders surround the site, festooned in dead man's fingers and plumose and dahlia anemones.
Statuesque in a paiette festooned knit dress, Whitney Port took it all in whilst sipping her champy.... The Daily Truffle: People Hosts Red Carpet Style Party at Newly Remodeled Decades Atelier
No power on earth, he declared, would induce him to attempt to "festoon" a hole in the accepted fashion. Betty Trevor
Iraq two years ago, Mr Cottone found himself standing next to a marine captain festooned with medals and ribbons. Lisa Jane Phillips
I left the cabin and picked up my fishing rod, which Ishmael had festooned with some very sexy lures, including a neon-green pinwheel.
Non-biodegradable plastic festoons would decorate the medians and would pose an adventurous journey for road users.
If it's jewellery you're after, there are enough gold necklaces, chains and rings festooning the brightly-lit windows of the downtown souks to pay off an average country's national debt.
He was doused with cologne and festooned with enormous jeweled rings, and drove a massive white Cadillac. A Renegade History of the United States
If Lillian's dessert plate was festooned with candied violets, mine would have an exiguous broken petal or two. THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
The hall was lined with great columns down both sides, and the whole area was festooned with banners and garlands of flowers.
The public buildings were festooned for the holiday
The rumbling of wheels heard through the drooping festoonery of the trees, proclaimed that a second carriage was approaching along the Shell Road. The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley
The entire vehicle was festooned with a bewildering array of kit.
On a higher level grow broad-leaved acanthi and wild artichokes, and thick festoons of cactus hang down from the top of the rock and shade the entrances to the grottoes. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
At the moment, it is festooned with masses of clusters of white flowers which give a thick, heady scent.
Thus, The Birth Rate Decline Bra , festooned with cartoon grandmothers admonishing lazy Japanese to get down, get funky and get themselves some families.
His works make up a spectacular fleet of brilliantly festooned machines.
The north park is home to a couple of tiny ponds, traversed by bridges festooned with clunky metal turtles designed by a local artist.
The primary rooms had festoons of "blockwork," and under an awning made from a bright patchwork quilt, made by them, hung their dainty pockets, tidies, scarfs, etc., quaintly outlined in bright needlework. The American Missionary — Volume 48, No. 7, July, 1894
It is festooned with posters of his bearded face. Times, Sunday Times
He was doused with cologne and festooned with enormous jeweled rings, and drove a massive white Cadillac. A Renegade History of the United States
I have a picture of a shrine in my head, all bedecked with knobbly candles and baroque festoonery, and anything less would be disappointing. Interview and a Starred Review
Photographs of his career festooned the walls, and albums would be brought from the back room at the merest beckoning. Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing
Often, as I am sipping on a low-fat caffe latte in some fashionable bistro, I will look up and see a jogger stagger past, his sweltering torso festooned with tattoos, at least one reading "Only the Strong Survive. Hey, Buddy, Keep Your Shirt On!
Carrying plugs festooned with treble hooks is a price that is inevitably paid by the penitent plug fisherman.
Beautiful equines gaily festooned in spotless harness and working in perfect rhythm, will always be the centerpiece of my circus memories.
Dr. Porter was an invalid, with the prophetic handkerchief bundling his throat, and his face "festooned" -- as I heard Hillard say once, speaking of one of our College professors -- in folds and wrinkles. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
Many wore the traditional yellow shirts of the four-times champions and there was little sympathy for England's dejection on the Falls Road, still festooned with Irish tricolours.
Strings of dried apples are festooned from chamber windows; and paper bags of catnip and spearmint and thoroughwort and penny-royal and mullen hang drying on the garret walls. Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends
arabesque" and other formal designs gave employment to the carvers, in making an infinite repetition of fiddles, festoons, and ribbons, in the execution of which they became so proficient, that their work is more often admired for its exquisite finish than for any intrinsic interest in the subject or design. Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship
If textile is a part of your artifact (like in a wall hanging or festoons), or the clothing of dolls, wash them only if you think that they will not run colour.
May our canteens be festooned with canticles, our shoeshops filled with catalectic feet. People of Britain, it's time to carve a few lines of poetry into your wheelbarrow
The 1897 building, with its multifoils and festoons, replaced another that stood at this site.
It was a dim, old-fashioned chamber, festooned with cobwebs, and besprinkled with antique dust.
Planted in a deep tub, within a couple of seasons it will reach for the sky and festoon your railings with its sweet scented flowers.
Standing by the Christmas tree was Caravaggio's Young Bacchus, his hair festooned with vine leaves and grapes. RESCUING ROSE
The room was festooned with gay paper chains.
The tall green grass is waving in the fields as the wind goes over, and there is a fragrance of whiteweed and ripe strawberries and clover blowing through the sunshiny barns, with their lean sides and their festoons of brown, dusty cobwebs; dull, comfortable creatures they appear to imaginative eyes, waiting hungrily for their yearly meal. The White Rose Road
The galleries were tastefully draped with black cloth, trimmed with white bandeaux, and relieved with a white and black mixed cord, in festoons. Meetings of Condolence on the Death of President Lincoln
For often one sees festooned from one rotted tree to another the ampelopsis vine. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
Ionic and Corinthian monuments, however, as well as minor works such as steles, altars, etc., were richly adorned with carved mouldings and friezes, festoons, acroteria, and other embellishments executed with the chisel. A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
London is festooned in flags and banners. Times, Sunday Times
Sumptuous buildings rise up from the wooded hillsides, the four-storey mansions are festooned with shapely balconies and are as curvaceous as an Edwardian belle.
As we went north the country became very lovely; many new trees appeared; the grass was green, and often higher than the wagons; the vines festooned the trees, among which appeared the real banian Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
From the entrance gates to the chimney tops, they all have been festooned with strings of coloured and bright white bulbs.
No cocoanuts nor bananas were to be seen, though dense, tropic vegetation overran everything, dripping in airy festoons from the sheer lips of the precipices and running riot in all the crannied ledges. The Whale Tooth
Today, the roundabouts are festooned with decorations and blue and yellow lights.
One wall is festooned with PR awards. Times, Sunday Times
She chats with a neighbor hanging laundry on one of the poles that festoon the lane, while a man, still in pajamas, waters his plants. "I'm back!
Patrin found long bundles of hexahedral tubes, the walls of which were formed of transverse needles: the diameter of these tubes was from two to six lines only, but at the lower extremities they opened out into hollow six-sided pyramids, more than an inch in diameter, so that the festoons, sometimes as large round as a man, presented terminal tufts of some feet in diameter, which glittered like diamonds under the influence of the torches. Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland
The walls are festooned with photographs of its famous alumni, the actors who have performed in the RSC and made merry over the years. Times, Sunday Times
Overhead was the week's washing, hanging in festoons so low that Chapter 36
One wall is festooned with PR awards. Times, Sunday Times
The village was festooned with flowers and vines had been strung from house to house. Times, Sunday Times
The garland, or festoon, which is carried through, and sustained, as before stated, by each of the four figures, is composed of every flower indigenous to this part of the land, and introduced emblematically to the time in which they severally bloom. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland
We rename an eatery with a French name as we continue to deny that our national floral emblem its correct vernacular name, "chaconier '', derived from the French" chaconne "a medieval song/dance of France, Spain and Italy where the dancers festooned their costumes with little red flags which moved with their dance movements causing the flags to flutter. TrinidadExpress Today's News
Baseball cards and autographed photographs festooned the wall as in a teenager's bedroom.
Gimcracks in an étagère; a festoon of chenille monkeys hanging from the gaselier. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891
a persian carpet interwoven with gold, and round the arches was hung in festoons Sporting Sketches
Guns found 'festooned' on the walls of celebrity author Dave Courtney's home were props for his wife's theatrical company, the Old Bailey heard yesterday. Home
A profusion of mosses, liverworts, lichens and ferns cover the woodland floor and festoon tree trunks and branches.
The walls are festooned with photographs of its famous alumni, the actors who have performed in the RSC and made merry over the years. Times, Sunday Times
It proves valuable again at Campo San Rocco, Venice's loveliest small square, where we are introduced to the magnificent Scuola Grande guildhall, festooned with Tintorettos.
The grey gauze-like festoonery, having a resemblance to ascending smoke, hinders him from perceiving that of the discharged gun. The Death Shot A Story Retold
No cocoanuts nor bananas were to be seen, though dense, tropic vegetation overran everything, dripping in airy festoons from the sheer lips of the precipices and running riot in all the crannied ledges. The Whale Tooth
The largest piece of art was a working carousel that blew bubbles and was festooned with fake animals, flowers and ribbons - literally a maypole come to life.
At one time it is a pompous banquet in a superb saloon festooned with gold, with tall lustrous windows and pale crimson curtains, the doge in his simarre dining with the magistrates in purple robes, and masked guests gliding over the floor; nothing is more elegant than the exquisite aristocracy of their small feet, their slender necks and their jaunty little three-cornered hats among skirts flounced with yellow or pearly gray silks. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One)
Planted in a deep tub, within a couple of seasons it will reach for the sky and festoon your railings with its sweet scented flowers.
The entrance to Bombay's Birla Matushree Auditorium is festooned with blue and red bunting.
This elegant, Edwardian "festooned" piece, which is part of a necklace-and-earring set, includes 175 EDF flawless white diamonds for a total of around 50 carats. Million-Dollar Rocks 2006 © Harry...
On this, the Swarovski crystal and pearls are strung like a festoon of flowers, with hanging clusters terminating in big pieces of aqua quartz.
They tend to emerge at dawn and dusk, to feed on the lichens which festoon these forest hideaways .
Pour me a glass of rum and within the vapors rises a raucous and even romantic history of joy, tragedy and debauchery: tippling houses in Barbados in the early 1600's, where British settlers supped the earliest permutation of rum, which they referred to as "kill-devil"; jug wielding pirates careening through the streets of Port Royal in Jamaica, wildly spending their pieces of eight plundered from the Spanish and British empires; independence-minded American revolutionaries huddled in taverns drinking rum Flips and plotting their resistance against the heavy taxes imposed upon them by the British; Americans fleeing Prohibition downing Daiquiris and Swizzles in the jammed bars of Havana; opulent tiki palaces serving Mai Tais, flaming Scorpion bowls, Hurricanes and Fog Cutters to lei-festooned business-men and June Cleaveresque housewives. Slashfood
Despite a gloomy weather forecast, the sun shone, and the very long, winding, narrow lanes festooned with mayflower like bridal veils were negotiated without meeting any traffic coming the other way.
The road is decorated with colourful festoons whenever a new film is released and invariably there will be a mad rush for these movies.
This slope of Posilippo is covered with country houses, casinos, meadows, and very fine trees with vines winding about them in festoons. Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun
Above -- on the clavel-piece -- were festooned strings of dried apples, pumpkins, and peppers. Customs and Fashions in Old New England
These protective garments are generally also festooned with wands of office: besmeared stethoscopes draped around the neck, clunky paging devices clipped to the belt, and an array of well chewed ballpoint pens poking forlornly from the breast and hip pockets. Cri de coeur
Mrs. Barbauld wrote the following lines on a scroll within a kind of wreath, which hung over the chimney, the whole parlour being decorated with branches of ivy, which were made to run down the walls and hang down every pannel in festoons, at a country place called Palgrave: Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
And up on Henman Hill they will set up a camp festooned with all those flags and that same fervour seemingly made redundant after that player back-pedalled ignominiously into his own net.
Small-town main streets are lined with delicate, statuary-festooned temple compounds, the roadside stands along the way are mostly seasonal ones for durian and jackfruit (which I sample along with, strangely enough, an avid Chinese couple from Los Angeles), and the pit stops now include one called Babi Guling (Suckling Pig) Obama. One Hour Out: Bali
The Sons can otherwise festoon their cars with rebel flags.
The craze for ferns and the craving for grubbing in rock-pools at the seaside, popularised by Gosse's engaging handbooks, went hand in hand with the plant display cases and marine aquaria that festooned countless parlours.
Quantitatively, though, the vast majority of cases involve the interpretation of ordinary laws, many of them dauntingly convoluted, many others festooned with decades of glosses by judges of varying perceptiveness writing opinions of varying clarity. Law
The entire vehicle was festooned with a bewildering array of kit.
Thus, then, the muffled rollings of a milky sea; the bleak rustlings of the festooned frosts of mountains; the desolate shiftings of the windrowed snows of prairies; all these, to Moby Dick; or the Whale
ALBANY -- Bright red will be splashed across traditional Chinese garments, including the long floral print dress known as cheongsam, and it will festoon a sold-out, 982-seat Kitty Carlisle Hart Theatre at the Egg during a Chinese New Year celebration tonight. Timesunion.com: Local Breaking News
The great heavy drooping firs stretched their arms, clothed in festoons of dark green drapery, over the sheeted earth. Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
Colourful stickers, festoons, bargain deals and a whole range of sales gimmicks are employed to lure customers.
London is festooned in flags and banners. Times, Sunday Times
Today, we will not bat an eyelid when we see the festoons go up on February 14.
The queen's bedchamber sits daintily festooned with floral pinks and lilacs in a combination with gold, overlooking the south parterre.
The case contains a tree, and the branches of the tree are festooned with hundreds of passenger pigeons cast in orange copal (a million or so years old, an immature form of amber). "There's a shark-shaped fin, in the water of my dreams..."
The cobwebs that hung from the corners of the ceilings, and festooned the lustred chandeliers, were thick as string with it. The Way Home
If Lillian's dessert plate was festooned with candied violets, mine would have an exiguous broken petal or two. THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
English streets were festooned with the red and white flag of St George.
Meanwhile the factory of Joseph Terry and Sons Ltd was transformed by a lavish display of festoons, streamers and flags.
The wall was festooned with iron fire escape ladders, but he found the door he was looking for. A SEASON IN HELL
Also included is an impressive Indian multi-strand pearl and turquoise necklace, the front designed as a stylised peacock, which is estimated at $15,000-25,000, a cultured pearl and paste 'festoon' brooch which was a gift from the late Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Undefined
Every mall in Beijing is festooned with Christmas decorations.
I did, however, enjoy an ancient loggerhead turtle festooned with remoras and a hogfish in its distinctive night camouflage.
On the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar the streets of York were festooned with innumerable flags floating in the breeze.
A striking example of epiphyte accumulation at lower elevations is the Spanish "moss" that festoons the Evangeline oak, baldcypress, and other trees of the eastern Gulf coast. Outer Coastal Plain Mixed Forest Province (Bailey)
Houses are decorated with colourful festoons, stars and cut-outs depicting the Lord Jesus' life and, of course, the quintessential Christmas tree.
He recalled popping up to York when he was an Oxford student and marvelling at all the hanging baskets of flowers that festooned the city.
An elaborately scalloped newspaper drape ornamented the clock shelf; paper chains, made of blue and yellow sale-bills, were festooned from the elbow of the stove pipes to the window curtains; the wood box was freshly papered with newspaper; red flannel was put in the lamps. Sowing Seeds in Danny
The anteroom of his county election headquarters is festooned with cheery signs such as one saying Voting Just Got Easier.
Every deck was holystoned, every bit of brass polished, every rail festooned. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
To provide a festival spirit, the spiral-bound projects of the students replaced the banyan leaves as festoons.
Decorations often take up quite a bit of time at home, but the experts do it in a jiffy, for they have a range of colourful festoons and sprightly buntings in stock, all ready to be hung up at the party venue.
The researchers picked that name to highlight the presence of a pink form of the jellyfish order Stauromedusae as well as numerous spiky tubeworm casings that festoon the vent chimney and bring to mind "the serpent-haired Medusa of Greek myth," said expedition leader Emily Klein. Archive 2007-04-01
Partly blocking the door of the larder there was a shapeless sofa upon which Mrs. Brooker, our landlady, lay permanently ill, festooned in grimy blankets. The Road to Wigan Pier
Inside, the lobby is festooned with feel-good design clichés, from checkerboard terrazzo to pendant chandeliers.
I do not wish to have our coins festooned with his pachydermal ears. Kicking it, Auld School : Law is Cool
Hogweed, pale pink valerian and festoons of bedstraw line a lane and frame distant views of Hawk's Tor, up on the edge of Bodmin Moor above the Lynher river. Country diary: North Hill, Cornwall
HER daddy the King of Pop lay at her feet in the splendour of a golden casket festooned with red roses. The Sun
Graceful islands rise from the quiet waters, -- Grape Island, Grass Island, Sharp Pine Island, and the rest, baptized with simple names by departed generations of farmers, -- all wooded and bushy and trailing with festoonery of vines. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861
Opulent Persian weavings smoldered on the floor, and there was a festoonery of incense burners and candelabra. Another Roadside Attraction
The village was festooned with flowers and vines had been strung from house to house. Times, Sunday Times
An adjoining reception area is festooned with lights and full of platters of cheese.
Doors and chimneys are festooned with garlands of garlic.
The painted body of the stately Beekman coach is adorned with the family's coat of arms, crest, and applied floral festoons.
The sprawling garden was festooned with fancy illuminations and aesthetically decorated flower baskets.
Thereafter, ‘fine festoon candlesticks’ make fairly regular appearances, supplied to other clients, so disseminating a refined French style through the repertoire.
Even statues of Annamayya and Ramanuja, leave alone those of Mahatma Gandhi and Ambedkar, are enveloped in yellow festoons.
The accomplisher of his preceptor's behest, having obtained them, he felt great delight and set out speedily for the city of Champa adorned with festoons of Champaka flowers. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
A profusion of mosses, liverworts, lichens and ferns cover the woodland floor and festoon tree trunks and branches.
On this, the Swarovski crystal and pearls are strung like a festoon of flowers, with hanging clusters terminating in big pieces of aqua quartz.
Seven of these were wound in festoons on one capital, and over and underneath them were fringes, one hundred in a row. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
It was a fitting room for revelry, with its gaily painted walls and ceiling, now with its ropes of natural blossoms festooning windows and chaining gasalier to gasalier. A Heart-Song of To-day
One wall is festooned with PR awards. Times, Sunday Times
Its five floors of offices are festooned with flags and cartoon posters of the company's ant mascot.
It is festooned with posters of his bearded face. Times, Sunday Times
Above it, pink nylon falls in decorative festoons around a chandelier hanging from the ceiling.
A double broken gable was placed atop displaying the festooned Chigi mountains and crowned by their star enclosed in a roundel.
Wherever I look in my mind I find accumulations of dust and festoons of cobwebs.
It is festooned with posters of his bearded face. Times, Sunday Times
Twinkly lights festooned the rides and side-stalls, the smell of hot dogs, popcorn and candyfloss permeated the air and best of all, they had all the old rides with hurdy-gurdies and barrel organs!
The flag must not be used as a festoon, rosette or bunting or in any other manner of decoration.
It is festooned with posters of his bearded face. Times, Sunday Times
(Come to think of it, anything that involves the word "festoon" is probably a bad idea.) Black America Web
Lifting his eyes above the joyous exhibition, he beheld the carven capitals of the columns, tied together with festoonery of evergreens, and relieved by garlands of shining flowers, and above the musicians, under a canopy shading her from the meridian sun, the Princess Irene herself. The Prince of India — Volume 01
Durand-Greville in _La Nature_, November 24, 1900, that Lamarck was the first to observe the so-called pocky or festoon cloud, or mammato-cirrus cloud, which at rare intervals has been observed since his time. [ Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work
She was festooned with bangles, rings, necklaces, earrings and jewellery.
The British Red Cross won the charity shop section with its festoon of red net, hearts and open book displaying information about Valentine's Day.
We passed one of the elaborate clan houses, this one festooned with magnificent raccoon carvings; one was seated atop the ridgepole over the doorway, his forepaws dangling. Fire The Sky
All the kids go around the block driving patriotically festooned bikes and trikes.
Both doors and windows were adorned with festoons that harmonized with the seats and were adorned with the monogram ‘JB,’ as were the porcelain jardinières in which Josephine put flowers.
An adjoining reception area is festooned with lights and full of platters of cheese.
A section of men, including small boys, have their days in the torrid heat in the city that has now worn a festoon ambience for its favourite month, ‘Chithirai’.
American flags made in the studio's upholstery department festoon storefronts and Spanish moss from the greenery department drips over trees. Hollywood's TV Factory
Wrought-iron balconies are festooned with hanging baskets overflowing with ferns.
Every bedroom has its own Christmas tree and festoons of decorations.
The village was festooned with flowers and vines had been strung from house to house. Times, Sunday Times
A pause in the soliloquy; a glance at the prostrate form; another, which interrogates the scene around, taking in the huge unshapely trunks, their long outstretched limbs, with the pall-like festoonery of Spanish moss; a thought about the loneliness of the place, and its fitness for concealing a dead body. The Death Shot A Story Retold
You would have thought twice, perhaps, before deciding him to be a gentleman, but finally would have decided that he was; one great token being, that the singular aspect of the room into which he was ushered, the spider festoonery, and other strange accompaniments, the grim aspect of the Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance
One of the elements, the polka dot, festoons buildings and the street, conjoining elements of a broken urban environment into an aesthetic whole. Vince Carducci: Aesthetic Community in Detroit

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