Opulent Persian weavings smoldered on the floor, and there was a festoonery of incense burners and candelabra. From Wordnik.com. [Another Roadside Attraction]
I have a picture of a shrine in my head, all bedecked with knobbly candles and baroque festoonery, and anything less would be disappointing. From Wordnik.com. [Interview and a Starred Review] Reference
The Martha Stewart Collection will include household sundries such as bed linens, dinnerware, kitchenware, holiday festoonery and garden furniture. From Wordnik.com. [Martha, Macy's Ink Swank Household Goods Deal] Reference
Graceful islands rise from the quiet waters, -- Grape Island, Grass Island, Sharp Pine Island, and the rest, baptized with simple names by departed generations of farmers, -- all wooded and bushy and trailing with festoonery of vines. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference
The rumbling of wheels heard through the drooping festoonery of the trees, proclaimed that a second carriage was approaching along the Shell Road. From Wordnik.com. [The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley] Reference
Lifting his eyes above the joyous exhibition, he beheld the carven capitals of the columns, tied together with festoonery of evergreens, and relieved by garlands of shining flowers, and above the musicians, under a canopy shading her from the meridian sun, the Princess Irene herself. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of India — Volume 01] Reference
You would have thought twice, perhaps, before deciding him to be a gentleman, but finally would have decided that he was; one great token being, that the singular aspect of the room into which he was ushered, the spider festoonery, and other strange accompaniments, the grim aspect of the. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance] Reference
A pause in the soliloquy; a glance at the prostrate form; another, which interrogates the scene around, taking in the huge unshapely trunks, their long outstretched limbs, with the pall-like festoonery of Spanish moss; a thought about the loneliness of the place, and its fitness for concealing a dead body. From Wordnik.com. [The Death Shot A Story Retold] Reference
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