festoon
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Synonyms & Antonyms for festoon
Synonyms: Verb
adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, blazon, caparison, deck, decorate, do, do up, doll up, drape, dress, embellish, emblaze, emboss, enrich, fancify, fancy up, garnish, glitz (up), grace, gussy up, ornament, pretty (up), trim
Antonyms: Verb
blemish, deface, disfigure, mar, scar, spoil
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Examples of festoon in a Sentence
Verb
We festooned the halls with leaves and white lights. The balcony is festooned in ivy. His office is festooned with newspaper clippings.
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Flowers festoon mirrors, table legs boast dazzling jewels and brightly colored paintings line the walls. — Hannah Natanson, Washington Post, "This D.C. barbershop and art gallery offers insight into the LGBTQ community alongside free haircuts," 9 Aug. 2019 But jazz, drink and festoons of Union Jacks were poor covers for the discontent coursing through the party membership in Kettering, a town in central England that voted six-to-four in favor of Britain’s leaving the European Union. — Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, "The 0.3% of U.K. Voters Who Will Pick the Next Prime Minister," 6 July 2019 The three strand necklace, created from approximately 64 carats of round and emerald cut diamonds set in platinum is in the festoon style. — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, "Charlotte Casiraghi Channels Her Grandmother Grace Kelly at Her Own Royal Wedding," 3 June 2019 Hence the magnificent gables, the plaster scrolls, escutcheons, vases, masks, garlands, festoons, cartouches, balustrades, and whatnot. — Steve King, Condé Nast Traveler, "Why We Keep Going Back to Amsterdam," 24 Dec. 2018 Five minutes after beer became legal at midnight, a big truck, gay with festoons, rumbled to the service entrance of the White house, bearing two cases—a brewer’s gift to the president. — sandiegouniontribune.com, "April 7 1933: New Beer's Day," 7 Apr. 2018 Inside the Little A'Le'Inn, pictures of UFO sightings, alien masks and military memorabilia decorate, festoon, cover and otherwise dominate the walls and ceiling. — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, "Hunting for Area 51's aliens along Nevada's Extraterrestrial Highway," 29 Mar. 2018 Rustic figures The cave had collapsed some years earlier, but that didn’t obscure the rustic figures of animals, fish and humans in daubs of black, white and red that festoon the entry wall. — Brian J. Cantwell, The Seattle Times, "From Loreto, 3 day-trip adventures in Baja’s high desert," 31 May 2017 Graffiti bearing the team's red dragons logo festoons the outside of the old stand, which is adorned with littered stairwells and poured cement with all the charm of an old prison. — Motez Bishara, CNN, "Champions League final 2017: Zinedine Zidane's incredible journey from Cannes to Cardiff," 1 June 2017Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
Mylinda Mason, who lives in an American-flag festooned house on a quiet street in Modesto, was one of the main organizers of Modesto straight pride. — Los Angeles Times, "Two mothers and a son at the center of a ‘straight pride’ culture war," 5 Sep. 2019 Or the relevancy to fashion’s current fascination with the ’90s in the pops of neon splashed on a slinky slip dress, or the orange and blue swirled pattern festooned on a skin-tight top and leggings. — Melissa Magsaysay, chicagotribune.com, "Meet Chicago native Maisie Schloss, the first designer in Kanye West’s incubator program," 14 Aug. 2019 Views come and views go, but this one won’t have anything intervening for a very long time; bettered still by the sellers, who reportedly trimmed the vista with another $300,000 in festooning their yard. — Mark Samuelson, The Denver Post, "With a premium half-acre site overlooking Fox Hollow and foothills, ranch is $1.5M," 7 June 2019 Her seasonal danishes are outstanding: whorls of buttery dough festooned with crunchy sugar crystals and filled with guava or strawberry-rhubarb jams. — Chris Morocco, Bon Appétit, "Rockaway Beach Bakery Is the Real Reason I Go to the Beach," 9 Aug. 2019 Now there are festivals festooned with doublets and hose all around the nation all summer long. — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, "San Jose Renaissance and Fantasy Faire holds court downtown," 4 Aug. 2019 Brooklyn technically selected Kabengele 27th overall, and the 21-year-old walked the interview circuit at Brooklyn's Barclays Center, the site of the draft, wearing a hat and watch festooned with the Nets logo. — John Cherwa, latimes.com, "The Sports Report: U.S. beats Sweden, on to knockout round," 21 June 2019 At Celsious, customers doing the wash snack on rhubarb rose tarts at the cafe, sip organic kombucha on tap, attend free meditation classes and fold their jeans in a spacious backyard patio festooned with pink Azaleas. ... — Anne Kadet, WSJ, "Latest Spin on Laundromats Includes Pastries, Movie Nights and Maybe Even Karaoke," 28 May 2019 My neighborhood was festooned with every possible permeation of the symbol, ready to house the millions of people swarming to Manhattan to recognize and celebrate WorldPride. — Misty Bell Stiers, Quartz at Work, "Pride month is over. The need for safe spaces at work is not," 13 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'festoon.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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