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# festoon

«festoon» in Mova's school dictionary: **a chain or string of flowers, leaves, ribbons or lights…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

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

2) To festoon is to decorate a place with such chains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/festoon/#m2)

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «festoon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/festoon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.