Definition of Festooned

1. Verb. (past of festoon) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Festooned

1. festoon [v] - See also: festoon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Festooned

festivalgoer
festivalgoers
festivalist
festivalists
festivals
festive
festive season
festively
festiveness
festivenesses
festivities
festivity
festivous
festlich
festoon
festooned (current term)
festooneries
festoonery
festooning
festoons
festoony
fests
festschrift
festschriften
festucine
festucous
festue
festues
festy
feta

Literary usage of Festooned

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Weather: A Popular Exposition of the Nature of Weather Changes from Day to Day by Ralph Abercromby (1887)
"12, suddenly become festooned at the base, and diminished at the top, as marked a 2 in the diagram. A few minutes later the whole cloud evaporated, ..."

2. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science : Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1868)
"... around the edge of the crys- alline; because it appears plaited or festooned, as it were. GOETHE, (from guttur, ' throat,' [?] ) Broncho- cele. ..."

3. The Diary of a Lady-in-waiting by Charlotte Campbell Bury, Archibald Francis Steuart (1908)
"I never saw him there before, and I could not discover who he is, or anything else about him, except that he has very white teeth and very festooned lips. ..."

4. Hispano-Moresque Pottery in the Collection of the Hispanic Society of America by Edwin Atlee Barber (1915)
"Three circles of Christian inscriptions—"DOMINE SURGE,'' repeated (and "DOMINE ADM SURGE")—alternating with bands of simple festooned ornaments. ..."

5. New York in Slices: By an Experienced Carver, Being the Original Slices by George G. [Foster (1849)
"... a long row of mirrored arcades, festooned- with costly blue and crimson silk and wreathed with golden carved work, the interior lined with plate glass, ..."

6. Catching's Compendium of Practical Dentistry (1897)
"FLASK PARTING OIL. Dr. WS Elliott, Sag Harbor, NY, says the best material for parting flasks is the oil used in the Edison battery. festooned GUMS. DR. II. ..."

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