festoony

English

Etymology

festoon +‎ -y

Adjective

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

References

• “festoony”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.