Dictionary Entry
festoon
festoon is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A garland or wreath hanging in a depending curve, used in decoration for festivals, etc.; anything arranged in this way. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A garland or wreath hanging in a depending curve, used in decoration for festivals, etc.; anything arranged in this way.
- 2noun
A carved ornament consisting of flowers, and leaves, intermixed or twisted together, wound with a ribbon, and hanging or depending in a natural curve. See Illust. of Bucranium.
- 3transitive verb
To form in festoons, or to adorn with festoons.
- 4noun
flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration
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- 5noun
an embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on pottery or in architectural work
- 6noun
a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curves
- 7verb
decorate with strings of flowers
"The public buildings were festooned for the holiday"
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