festooned

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The reprise is still more festooned, and it is almost a relief when the little, tender unison begins with its positive chord assertions closing the period.

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  • While his hardware-festooned body mimed the motions his projection felt as though it were doing, Albert sampled a demo routine in which he walked up a flight of stairs, worked a computer console, and sat in a meadow with a breeze blowing across his face. —  Analog, July/August 2003
  • He shivered like a horse as he stood there, too tall for the herb-festooned rafters. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 04-05 - October-November 1999
  • His father was a shrimper, he told us, and he delighted in pointing out and naming each freshly painted, flower-festooned, and holy-water-sprinkled boat. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 03 - March 1994
  • Opposite Dell and Madame Fifi's side of High Street was St. Petrocks. Between the block upon which that church stood and the block opposite the Guildhall was Broadgate: a short, wide, shop-festooned thoroughfare connecting High Street and Cathedral Yard. —  AnalogSFF,November2007
  • He habitually wore a data glove that had seen better days, and a tube-festooned, battered drysuit—pilot undress, that he sported as a badge of rank. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
 

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