Usually means: Decorative chain or strip hanging.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. festoon: Merriam-Webster
  2. festoon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. festoon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. festoon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. festoon: Vocabulary.com
  6. festoon: Wordnik
  7. festoon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. festoon: Wiktionary
  9. festoon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. festoon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. festoon: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Festoon, festoon: Dictionary.com
  13. festoon (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. festoon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Festoon (horse), Festoon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Festoon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. festoon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. festoon: Rhymezone
  19. festoon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. festoon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. festoon: FreeDictionary.org
  22. festoon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. festoon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. festoon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. festoon: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. festoon: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. festoon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. festoon: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. festoon: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. festoon: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See festooned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots.
noun:  (architecture) A bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling such an ornament.
noun:  A raised cable with light globes attached.
noun:  (astronomy) A cloud on Jupiter that hangs out of its home belt or zone into an adjacent area forming a curved finger-like image or a complete loop back to its home belt or zone.
noun:  (acarology) Any of a series of wrinkles on the backs of some ticks.
noun:  (technology) A specific style of electric light bulb consisting of a cylindrical enclosure with two points of contact on either end providing power to the filament or diode.
noun:  (manufacturing) Two sets of rollers used to create a buffer of material on web handling equipment.
noun:  Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Zerynthia.
noun:  (dentistry) Texturing applied to a denture to simulate human tissue.
verb:  To decorate with ornaments, such as garlands or chains, which hang loosely from two tacked spots.
verb:  To make festoons.
verb:  To decorate or bedeck abundantly.
verb:  (dentistry, transitive) To apply texturing to (a denture) to simulate human tissue.

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