festoon

1. 1.

   decorate with strings of flowers

   “The public buildings were festooned for the holiday”

   Broaderdecorate

Other forms of festoon

plural

festoons·

past tense

festooned·

present participle

festooning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about festoon

What does festoon mean?

festoon means "a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curves". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in festoon?

festoon has 2 syllables: fes-toon. The stress falls on "toon". In IPA it is /ˌfɛˈstun/.

What is another word for festoon?

Close synonyms include festoonery. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is festoon a common word?

festoon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.