festoon

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /fɛsˈtuːn/    美 /fɛsˈtuːn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots.
  2. A bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling such an ornament.
    — The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
  3. A raised cable with light globes attached.
  4. 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. Any of a series of wrinkles on the backs of some ticks.
  6. A specific style of electric light bulb consisting of a cylindrical enclosure with two points of contact on either end providing power to the filament or diode.
  7. Two sets of rollers used to create a buffer of material on web handling equipment.
  8. Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Zerynthia.
  9. Texturing applied to a denture to simulate human tissue.
动词 v.
  1. To decorate as if with ornaments, such as garlands or chains, which hang loosely from two tacked spots.
    — The tree trunks and the creepers that festooned them lost themselves in a green dusk thirty feet above him, and all about was the undergrowth.
  2. To make festoons.
  3. To decorate or bedeck abundantly.
    — He was bewildered by how the car was festooned with polka dots.
  4. To apply texturing to (a denture) to simulate human tissue. transitive

词形变化

festoons plural festoons present,singular,third-person festooning participle,present festooned participle,past festooned past

词汇关系

衍生词
festooner festoonery festoon pine festoony

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁stosder.
Proto-Italic *θēstos
Proto-Italic *fēstosder.
Late Latin fēstus
Late Latin fēsta
Late Latin fēsta
Italian festa
Proto-Indo-European *-ōder.
Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.?
Latin -ōnem
Italian -one
Italian festonebor.
French festonbor.
English festoon
Borrowed from French feston.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁stosder.
Proto-Italic *θēstos
Proto-Italic *fēstosder.
Late Latin fēstus
Late Latin fēsta
Late Latin fēsta
Italian festa
Proto-Indo-European *-ōder.
Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.?
Latin -ōnem
Italian -one
Italian festonebor.
French festonbor.
English festoon
Borrowed from French feston.
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