英语词汇“festoon”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

A festoon is a decorative string of flowers that you drape across a room, dropping in curves between support points. If you're decorating for Halloween, why not try a creatively spooky festoon of dried roses covered in cobwebs?

Festoon probably comes from the Italian word festone, for "feast," and if you can imagine an Italian courtyard strung up with flowers and lanterns, then you have a sense of what it means to festoon a place. A noun or a verb, festoon can mean the decoration itself, or the work of putting it up. Festoons don't strictly have to be made of flowers, though they usually are. You can festoon with fabric too, or paper chains. Or cobwebs.

WORD FAMILY

festoon: festooned, festoonery, festooning, festoons+/festoonery: festooneries

USAGE EXAMPLES

Tourists enjoying their breakfast looked down on fishing boats festooned with Christmas lights and bathed in unseasonally warm winter sunshine.

The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017)

The float will be festooned with thousands of flowers beneath a giant gold crown, which will serve as a makeshift altar for the ceremony.

Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016)

At the Palafox Hotel across the street, where rooms start at $12 dollars a night, the patio is festooned with drying laundry.

Los Angeles Times(Dec 23, 2016)

1n an embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on pottery or in architectural work

Hyper

embellishment

a superfluous ornament

2n a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curves

Hyper

curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall

hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

3n flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration

Syn|Hyper

festoonery

flower chain

flowers strung together in a chain

4v decorate with strings of flowers

The public buildings were festooned for the holiday

Hyper

adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament

make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.

单词	festoon
释义	festoon (once / 2553 pages) nv A festoon is a decorative string of flowers that you drape across a room, dropping in curves between support points. If you're decorating for Halloween, why not try a creatively spooky festoon of dried roses covered in cobwebs? Festoon probably comes from the Italian word festone, for "feast," and if you can imagine an Italian courtyard strung up with flowers and lanterns, then you have a sense of what it means to festoon a place. A noun or a verb, festoon can mean the decoration itself, or the work of putting it up. Festoons don't strictly have to be made of flowers, though they usually are. You can festoon with fabric too, or paper chains. Or cobwebs. WORD FAMILY festoon: festooned, festoonery, festooning, festoons+/festoonery: festooneries USAGE EXAMPLES Tourists enjoying their breakfast looked down on fishing boats festooned with Christmas lights and bathed in unseasonally warm winter sunshine. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) The float will be festooned with thousands of flowers beneath a giant gold crown, which will serve as a makeshift altar for the ceremony. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) At the Palafox Hotel across the street, where rooms start at $12 dollars a night, the patio is festooned with drying laundry. Los Angeles Times(Dec 23, 2016) 1n an embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on pottery or in architectural work Hyper embellishment a superfluous ornament 2n a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curves Hyper curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) 3n flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration Syn\|Hyper festoonery flower chain flowers strung together in a chain 4v decorate with strings of flowers The public buildings were festooned for the holiday Hyper adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
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