festoonyadj.
/fɛˈstuːni/, U.S. /fɛˈstuni/ rare.
Of, relating to, or resembling a festoon.
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1843 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 7 202 Your account of it throws on it the only ray of elucidation I have yet seen, in the festoony or ripply waves of the sand.
1947 J. Hewlett Wild Grape 6 He counted the festoony upside-down Coca-Cola bottles and the brown beer bottles and the blue Bromo Seltzer bottles, elegantly garnishing either side of the hard dirt walk.
2002 Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 6 Dec. a8/1 She brought gala, festoony strings of colorful autumn leaves and she and youngest sister Jeannine garlanded them in all the best places in the house.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1843- painted duck
- painted finch
- painted goose
- painted grass
- painted ground
- painted honeyeater
- painted hyena
- painted lady
- painted lady pea
- painted lady pease
- painted lady scarlet runner
- painted longspur
- painted mallow
- painted mischief
- painted over
- painted partridge
- painted quail
- painted ray
- painted sheath
- painted snipe
- painted terrapin
- painted top
- painted top-shell
- painted topshell
- painted tortoise