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▪ I. festoon, n.|fɛˈstuːn|
Also 7 festin, 8 feston.
[ad. Fr. feston (= Sp. feston, Pg. festão), ad. It. festone; believed to be f. festa feast n.; the etymological sense would thus be ‘decoration for a feast’.]
1. a. A chain or garland of flowers, leaves, etc., suspended in a curved form between two points.
1686W. Aglionby Painting Illust. Expl. of Terms, Festoon, is an Ornament of Flowers, employed in Borders and Decorations. a1732Gay Story of Arachne 209 Festoons of flow'rs inwove with ivy shine. 1754Mrs. Delany Let. to Mrs. Dewes 6 July, I have not yet got shells large enough for the festoons. 1792A. Young Trav. France 22 Here..see..vines, trained in festoons, from tree to tree. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 368 Strings of dried apples and peaches hang in gay festoons along the walls. 1852D. G. Mitchell Batte Summer 204 A rich festoon of nine banners. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. x. 106 Steaks of salt junk..are..soaked in festoons under the ice.
b. transf. Something hanging in this shape.
1841–44Emerson Ess., Heroism Wks. (Bohn) I. 102 Thunderclouds are Jove's festoons. 1870E. Peacock Ralf Skirl. II. 8 Large festoons of blue and white ribbon. 1887Ruskin Præterita II. 398 The curved rock from which the waterfall leaps into its calm festoons.
2. Archit. A carved or moulded ornament representing this. festoon and tassel border, in pottery: a band representing alternately festoons and a hanging or drooping ornament.
1676Coles, Festoon. 1682Wheler Journ. Greece v. 394 We saw..an Altar or Pedestal for a Statue, with Festins carv'd about it. 1692Settle Triumphs Lond., An Arch, on which is erected the King's-Arms in a most noble Shield, with Festoons of Silver on each side. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) III. 291 It represents Flora..and boys in alto-relievo supporting festoons. 1875Fortnum Majolica x. 88 On which are represented..festoons of fruit. 1879H. Phillips Notes Coins 10 The puteal which this coin presents has on each side a lyre suspended by a festoon.
3. Ornith. A lobe on the cutting edge of a hawk's beak.
1855Dallas Nat. Hist. II. 360 The True or Noble Falcons, which are distinguished..by..a slight festoon or sinuosity on the lateral margins of the upper mandible.
4. Collector's name of a moth.
1819G. Samouelle Entomol. Compend. 432 Apoda Testudo, the Festoon.
5. attrib. and Comb., as festoon-curtain, festoon-vineyard, festoon-work; festoon-like, adj. festoon-lighting (see quot.).
1794W. Felton Carriages (1801) II. 17 To a set of *festoon Curtains for a Coach.
1931Roget Dict. Electr. Terms (ed. 2) 120/2 *Festoon lighting, lighting by incandescent lamps arranged at regular intervals in special holders, along a flexible cable.
1870Rolleston Anim. Life 32 In several *festoon-like coils.
1717Berkeley Jrnl. Tour Italy 9 June, *Festoon vineyards right and left.
1893Huxley in Westm. Gaz. 29 Dec. 4/3, I was not over-burdened with love for such dialectic *festoon-work.
▪ II. festoon, v.|fɛˈstuːn|
[f. prec.; Fr. has festonner.]
†1. intr. To hang in festoons. Obs.
1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France I. 236 With vines richly festooning up and down them.
2. trans. To adorn with or as with festoons.
1800Moore Anacreon xlvi. 18 Clusters ripe festoon the vine. 1841Emerson Nat., Meth. Nat. Wks. (Bohn) II. 224 Vegetable life, which..festoons the globe with a garland of grasses and vines. 1870Disraeli Lothair lxvi. 349 The arcades were festooned.
3. To form into festoons; to hang up in or like festoons. Also with up.
1801Gabrielli Myst. Husb. I. 267 The curtains..were festooned up with gold and silver cord. 1811W. Taylor in Robberds Mem. II. 350 We should gladly have festooned for you the last garlands of our hospitality. 1859Jephson Brittany ii. 19 Curtains, which were tastefully festooned in graceful folds. 1872C. King Mountain. Sierra Nev. xiv. 286 Vigilance Committees..quickly began to festoon their..fellow-men from tree to tree.
4. To connect by festoons.
1832Tennyson Dream Fair Women 70 Growths of jasmine turn Their humid arms festooning tree to tree.
Hence feˈstooned ppl. a.; feˈstooning vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1811Pinkerton Petral. II. 84 Their undulating and festooned form. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xxvii. 205 A festooned curtain formed entirely of minute ice crystals. 1876‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer xiii. 118 Foliage and festooning vines. 1884Syd. Soc. Lex., Festooned-rings, the tendinous rings of the auriculo-ventricular and arterial openings in the heart. |