festoon

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A string or garland, as of leaves or flowers, suspended in a loop or curve between two points.
2. n. A representation of such a string or garland, as in painting or sculpture.
3. v. To decorate with or as if with festoons; hang festoons on.
4. v. To form or make into festoons.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A string or chain of any material suspended between two points; specifically, a chain or garland of flowers, ribbons, foliage, etc., suspended so as to form one or more depending curves.
2. n. In architecture, a sculptured ornament in imitation of a garland of fruits, leaves, or flowers suspended between two points; an encarpus. See cut under encarpus.
3. n. A form of drooping cloud sometimes seen on the under surface of dense cirro-stratus clouds. Also called pocky cloud.
4. n. In ornithology, specifically, a lobe on the cutting edge of a hawk's beak.
5. To form in festoons; adorn with festoons; connect by festoons.
6. n. A British collectors' name for a European limacodid moth, Apoda testudo, yellow-brown in color with narrow brown stripes arranged like a festoon.

Wiktionary

1. n. An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots.
2. n. architecture A bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling such an ornament.
3. n. A raised cable with light globes attached.
4. n. 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.
5. n. entomology Any of a series of wrinkles on the backs of some ticks.
6. v. To hang ornaments, such as garlands or chains, which hang loosely from two tacked spots.
7. v. To make festoons.
8. v. To decorate or bedeck abundantly.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A garland or wreath hanging in a depending curve, used in decoration for festivals, etc.; anything arranged in this way.
2. n. (Arch. & Sculp.) 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.
3. v. To form in festoons, or to adorn with festoons.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curves
2. v. decorate with strings of flowers
3. n. an embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on pottery or in architectural work
4. n. flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration