The decorating committee will festoon the hall with crepe paper and ribbon. From LearnThat.org.
(Come to think of it, anything that involves the word "festoon" is probably a bad idea.). From Wordnik.com. [Black America Web] Reference
No power on earth, he declared, would induce him to attempt to "festoon" a hole in the accepted fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Trevor] Reference
The next ceremony was, the feast or banquet which was prepared in a kind of festoon, upon the side of the plain. From Wordnik.com. [The Blind African Slave, or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nick-named Jeffrey Brace. Containing an Account of the Kingdom of Bow-Woo, in the Interior of Africa; with the Climate and Natural Productions, Laws, and Customs Peculiar to That Place. With an Account of His Captivity, Sufferings, Sales, Travels, Emancipation, Conversion to the Christian Religion, Knowledge of the Scriptures, &c. Interspersed with Strictures on Slavery, Speculative Observations on the Qualities of Human Nature, with Quotation from Scripture.] Reference
Words are good, if they only festoon love and trust. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864] Reference
I will festoon your frayed lapels with helium-filled balloons. From Wordnik.com. [Bone Dust Disco] Reference
To festoon the park with 11,000 orange ribbons is inappropriate. From Wordnik.com. [Christo Tries to Resurrect Long-Dead Central Park Piece] Reference
In the right hand the figure receives the festoon of flowers from. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
Barbed wire arrives by the truckload to festoon walls and rooftops. From Wordnik.com. [THE DARK ROAD AHEAD] Reference
The crowds will roar, the Academy will festoon these giants with laurels. From Wordnik.com. [Not A Season To Be Jolly] Reference
Sibi so as to form the subsidiary festoon of the Suliman and Bugti Hills. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Thank you to everyone who came and everyone who tried to attend via festoon. From Wordnik.com. [Thank You For Coming To Our Party] Reference
Someone created a very funny festoon image and defaced the wiki this morning. From Wordnik.com. [Thank You For Coming To Our Party] Reference
It is easy for the National Party to festoon the roads with posters about crime. From Wordnik.com. [PRESS STATEMENT ON ANC WESTERN CAPE CALL FOR ALL PARTIES TO JOIN IN THE WAR AGAINST CRIME] Reference
MQM officials tried to festoon the streetlights with party flags, witnesses say. From Wordnik.com. [Refugee Crisis Inflames Ethnic Strife in Pakistan] Reference
Gimcracks in an étagère; a festoon of chenille monkeys hanging from the gaselier. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891] Reference
Colorful flags bearing wrestlers 'names festoon the outside walls of the sumo hall. From Wordnik.com. [A Novice's Guide to Watching Sumo] Reference
But he didn't promise to festoon them with useless BUSINESS tax breaks, now did he. From Wordnik.com. [Dems Letting GOP Chase After Shiny 'Bipartisanship' Ball] Reference
And the following night a festoon of corpses dangled and swung from the towers of Nideck!. From Wordnik.com. [The Man-Wolf and Other Tales] Reference
But you can't do much worse than the pundits whose predictive nuggets festoon this page. 1. From Wordnik.com. [All Monica, All The Time] Reference
Giant ferns and broad-spreading palm leaves are used to festoon the walls and arched doorways. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journey to Puerto Rico : for Intermediate and Upper Grades For Intermediate and Upper Grades] Reference
The upholstery was fastened to the chairs with brass-headed tacks, often in a festoon pattern. From Wordnik.com. [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference
A part of the top garland which was to hang in a festoon over the door in the roof was lacking. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
On the wall behind it was an enlarged photograph of Lenin draped in a grubby festoon of scarlet muslin. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursing Home Murder]
Huge bows made of twinkling strings festoon Bond Street, and South Molton Street is hung with spiky golden sunbursts. From Wordnik.com. [London Streets Flicker To Life For Holidays] Reference
The festoon is carried on to Maturity, which represents the time when sixty years bring him to the period of decline. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
Audio cassettes festoon Taliban checkpoints as a warning to drivers that even on the highway they were being watched. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2001] Reference
A festoon of artificial flowers and spruce should be arranged in front, and a large spruce tree placed on either side. From Wordnik.com. [Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants] Reference
It would have a desolate look, were it not for the trees, and the hanging moss and numberless vines which festoon them. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864] Reference
She vanished, to reappear elsewhere in the room just in time to prevent three nymphs from hanging a festoon upside down. From Wordnik.com. [Harpy Thyme]
An evergreen cross, with the lilies at the centre; the ribbon hanging as a festoon from the arms, and bearing the words. From Wordnik.com. [Gems Gathered in Haste A New Year's Gift for Sunday Schools] Reference
Hence its moves to festoon its menu with salads and "healthier" foods even though these account for less than 10% of sales. From Wordnik.com. ['I'm Lovin' GM'] Reference
In the right hand of the figure is attached a portion of a festoon of carved flowers, which connects it with the other four figures. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
Tropical epiphytic orchids, bromeliads, and ferns festoon the trees of the hardwood hammocks and are restricted to southern Florida. From Wordnik.com. [South Florida rocklands] Reference
A Wall Street villain: Thain - the bond-shark who spends more on a commode to festoon his office than most Americans earn in a year!. From Wordnik.com. [Leo W. Gerard: Creep of the Week -- John A. Thain] Reference
The whole was connected at top by a bold festoon of foliage, and the capital of each column was surmounted by a vase of white lilies. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part I. 1792 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference
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