festoony

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English

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Etymology

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From festoon +‎ -y.

Adjective

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festoony (comparative more festoony, superlative most festoony)

  1. Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling festoons.
    • 1843, John Herschel, “letter to Lieut. Newbold”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society:
      Your account of it throws on it the only ray of elucidation I have yet seen , in the festoony or ripply waves of the sand
    • 2020, Fran Hill, Miss, What Does Incomprehensible Mean?:
      Sally and Jim were all in tasteless, garish, festoony Christmas jumpers

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