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Definition of "festooned" []

  • Simple past tense and past participle of festoon. (verb)

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Use "festooned" in a sentence
  • "Iraq two years ago, Mr Cottone found himself standing next to a marine captain festooned with medals and ribbons."
  • "An elaborately scalloped newspaper drape ornamented the clock shelf; paper chains, made of blue and yellow sale-bills, were festooned from the elbow of the stove pipes to the window curtains; the wood box was freshly papered with newspaper; red flannel was put in the lamps."
  • "Dr. Porter was an invalid, with the prophetic handkerchief bundling his throat, and his face "festooned" -- as I heard Hillard say once, speaking of one of our College professors -- in folds and wrinkles."