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# festoon

noun (festoons); verb (festoon, festoons, festooned, festooning)

«festoon» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A festoon is a chain or string of flowers, leaves, ribbons or lights hanging in a curve between two points. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/festoon/#m1)
2. To festoon is to decorate a place with such chains. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/festoon/#m2)

### In the lessons

in tales a garden or hall is festooned with flowers and lamps hung in curves from tree to tree

### Examples

- Brilliant lamps hung in festoons from tree to tree. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/festoon/#x1)
- Birds, flowers and festoons appeared in a tangle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/festoon/#x2)
- The hall was festooned with paper flowers for the feast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/festoon/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «festoon» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/festoon/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«festoon» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/festoon.html) on Mova free.