festoony
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
festoony (comparative more festoony, superlative most festoony)
- 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 edit
- “festoony”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.