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bunting
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Definition:any festive decorations made of fabric, or of plastic, paper or even cardboard in imitation of fabric. Typical forms of bunting are strings of colorful triangular flags and lengths of fabric in the colors of national flags gathered and draped into swags or pleated into fan shapes.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
photo: By Amanda Slater - originally posted to Flickr as June 19th "Bunting", CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4260566
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“You must have some red, white, and blue bunting,” Ignatius advised. “Political meetings always have that.”
John Kennedy Toole. A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
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Parsons boasted that Victory Mansions alone would display four hundred metres of bunting.
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Blackadder: Well, Mrs. Miggins, at last we can return to sanity. The hustings are over, the bunting is down, the mad hysteria is at an end.
BBC. Blackadder, season 3: Dish and Dishonesty
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The Canteen of the Allies, for all its imposing name, was merely three small basement rooms decked with dusty bunting, with a long plank nailed onto a couple of barrels that did service for a bar.
Irwin Shaw. The Young Lions, p.372 (1948)
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