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festoon: ► definition

Definition:

a wreath or garland hanging from two points, and in architecture typically a carved ornament depicting conventional arrangement of flowers, foliage or fruit bound together and suspended by ribbons. The motif is sometimes known as a swag when depicting fabric or linen.

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He was enchanted by the architecture of the city. Merry amoretti wove garlands above windows. Roguish fauns and naked nymphs peeked down at Billy from festooned cornices.

Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five (1968)

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"Why these festoons, these flowers, these garlands?

Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary

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"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.

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)

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Surf-carved sandstone festoons.

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita