(n.) A garland or wreath hanging in a depending curve, used in decoration for festivals, etc.; anything arranged in this way.
(n.) A carved ornament consisting of flowers, and leaves, intermixed or twisted together, wound with a ribbon, and hanging or depending in a natural curve. See Illust. of Bucranium.
(v. t.) To form in festoons, or to adorn with festoons.
Example Sentences:
(1) Then you happen on a large notice board festooned with flyers and cards, many offering help, companionship and solidarity to those who have been deemed surplus to the requirements of consumerism.
(2) The main shopping center, festooned with fading pictures of palm trees, is for lease, and includes a grocery store offering on-the-spot check cashing.
(3) A distal segment of the tubuli recti is found in bulls only and is characterized by a high epithelium which is thrown into folds giving the lumen a festooned appearance.
(4) At the time of his visit the streets were festooned with loyalist Red Hand of Ulster flags and union flags but the southern Irishman felt no hostility towards him or his Spanish wife, Teresa.
(5) Immunoelectron microscopy in the cytoplasmic or festoon type of HBsAg showed immunoreaction in the cisternae and on virus-like particles in the cisternae in patients with hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) antigenemia.
(6) Nature, at least, is thriving: weeds festoon carcasses of abandoned pick-up trucks.
(7) The house is similar: full of happy, unapologetic chaos, it overflows with enthusiasms – music everywhere, books in all corners, baby clothes festooned across the kitchen fireplace – and the sense, children notwithstanding, of incipient freeform parties.
(8) Chinese giant pandas have been a hit all around the world but seem to have a special cachet in Taiwan, where animal figures are so much in vogue that the airline company Eva Airways has found that festooning its aircraft in the livery of fictional Japanese figure Hello Kitty provides a powerful boost to sales.
(9) But we won’t forget.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The pavement in front of La Belle Équipe on rue de Charonne is festooned with flowers and candles.
(10) ✒ Two books which might interest you: my opposite number on the Times, Ann Treneman, has written Finding the Plot: 100 Graves To Visit Before You Die (Robson Press, £12.99), which is a lovely idea, festooned with good stories.
(11) Bastille 's recording studio of choice is festooned with fairy lights and platinum discs and located behind a Tesco Express, at the foot of a housing estate in south London.
(12) Tonight, after you've tricked and treated your way through Halloween festivities and thrown your elaborate costume in the bottom of your closet for another year, I'd be grateful if you could throw away whatever pink ribbon festooned memorabilia (or junk) you have gathered this month, too.
(13) Alongside the highway near the town of Ventersburg, at a rural settlement not yet reached by post-apartheid development, a knot of villagers had clustered: they were dancing and singing and clapping, and with the help of one or two vuvuzelas, cheering on the flag-festooned cavalcade of luxury cars ferrying well-heeled supporters down to the game.
(14) Characteristic features suggesting the possibility of hypothyroidism were edema, "festoons," and "secondary" bags.
(15) That hot June day in 1999, British troops were festooned with flowers, kissed and hugged along the road from the Macedonian border to Pristina.
(16) "Today when I came I heard the cheerful claps of the people," Modi told the 5,000-strong crowd in the town, which was festooned with flags from his Bharatiya Janata party.
(17) At St Wilfrid's in Pool-in-Wharfedale, even the graveyard was festooned with cardboard bikes.
(18) They arrive in a bustle with a crackle of paper bags and soon the meeting room table is festooned with salad boxes and plastic cutlery.
(19) Its hallways are festooned not with student art, but with printed banners exhorting self-improvement, done in a sassy corporate style as if Starbucks had taken over a school.
(20) His Facebook page is festooned with anti-Islamic materials, conspiracy theories, pro-militia content and even Donald Trump memes.
Painting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paint
(n.) The act or employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or colors.
(n.) The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture.
(n.) Color laid on; paint.
(n.) A depicting by words; vivid representation in words.
Example Sentences:
(1) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Also on display in the hallway is a painting of Carson with Jesus.
(3) Antoine Comte, a lawyer for the Schloss heirs, said all the family wanted was the return of the painting.
(4) Using an oil painting by G.F. Watts displayed in the National Portrait Gallery of London, we made an attempt to diagnose the dermatological alterations recognizable.
(5) 7 male and 39 female undergraduates were alternately assigned to rooms painted red or Baker-Miller Pink.
(6) The report paints a picture characterised too often by international indifference, even over the collection and distribution of the raw data on migrant deaths.
(7) These results indicate that, following a single painting of DNFB onto Langerhans cell-deficient skin, the numbers of Lyt2+ cells do not change significantly, but do change functionally.
(8) Case mothers were more likely to report occupational exposure to metals (odds ratio [OR] = 8.0, P = 0.01), petroleum products (OR = 3.7, P = 0.03), and paints or pigments (OR = 3.7, P = 0.05).
(9) PT painting resulted in rather higher sensitivity with Triton X-100 than with sodium lauryl sulphate.
(10) On the one hand, he has used it as an opportunity to paint Ukip as demonised by a media in hock to the politically correct establishment.
(11) A Landolt ring (diameter 43.5 cm; contrast 1:1.5) served as a test stimulus; it was painted on a disc 87 cm in diameter that could be rotated in steps of 45 degrees.
(12) The streets of Jiegu are now littered with concrete remnants of modern structures and the flattened mud and painted wood of traditional Tibetan buildings.
(13) She said it was hard to tell whether the paintings were stolen to order or would be offered on the black market, but added that they would be easy to transport out of Switzerland.
(14) Was Snare genuine, was the painting stolen, was he making it up?
(15) Injuries from paint require emergency surgical débridement and exploration because of the extreme tissue toxicity of the injected material.
(16) Some art experts have petitioned against Seracini drilling through the Vasari fresco, claiming any paint found behind might have been left by another artist.
(17) The Fed is also painting itself as one of the Good Guys in the Libor scandal, pointing out that it spotted the problems in 2008, and promptly tipped off the Brits.
(18) Trauma to the hand caused by injection of paint or grease solvents results in tissue destruction and later necrosis and fibrosis.
(19) "I want to talk about Curb Your Enthusiasm instead, and the paintings of Chagall, the music of Amy Winehouse and Woody Allen films."
(20) Following exposure to white spirit vapour, the effect of the expired solvent on evidential breath alcohol equipment was investigated under controlled exposure chamber conditions and in a simulated painting exercise.