as in adorned
to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming
for Valentine's Day the dance hall was festooned with a riot of red hearts and bow-wielding cupids
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Recent Examples of festooned
The family settled in a quiet residential street of older homes and multifamily buildings, some front porches festooned with pride flags still twinkling with holiday lights.
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Michael Biesecker, Twin Cities, 8 Jan. 2026
The Conch Bar Caves, on Middle Caicos, are among the biggest subterranean systems, a sinuous network festooned with stalactites and stalagmites.
—Henry Wismayer, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2026
Topping off this defensive cloak is an unruly yet exquisitely conceived mesh of wires, festooned with a kaleidoscopic phalanx of buttons.
—Alex Jovanovich, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
Donovan’s vision of Mother Ginger is more in keeping with his darker take for Drosselmeyer’s Revenge, a massive confection of blood-red tulle festooned with little doll heads painted silver and gold.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
It came festooned with outlets everywhere, leveraging the onboard battery so drivers could run tools at a worksite, power appliances at a tailgate party and even run their house on it, using it like a generator during a power outage.
—Camila Domonoske, NPR, 15 Dec. 2025
The show is divided into eight sections, spanning 9,685 square feet in total, with walls festooned with colorful flags – reflecting de Castelbajac’s love of medieval heraldry – and reclaimed materials, including gold foil survival blankets.
—Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 13 Dec. 2025
In 1939, with the town festooned in red, white, and blue, the hall officially opened, and one of its inaugural inductees, Babe Ruth, waved to the crowd.
—Jeremy Collins, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
Or maybe a riverboat structure festooned with flying pigs.
—Patricia Gallagher Newberry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for festooned
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The piece is abstract, and combines — to break it down for the sake of easy discussion — the shape of a railroad trestle adorned with hummingbird feathers.—
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Along with her Meer Couture coat, Queen Mathilde wore a pair of Jimmy Choo pointed-toe suede heels with her daytime event attire, as well as a statement Fabienne Delvigne headband, crafted in navy silk velvet and adorned with delicate leaves created in velvet felt, per the brand.—
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On a recent visit, each one was decorated as a different animal, except for the ube berry, which featured a berry mascarpone topping with ube icing.—
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His interpretation of Baccarat’s Zenith chandelier is to be sold as a one-off art piece, complete with its scaffolding crate decorated with old keyboards, sunglasses and badminton rackets.—
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Natural light spills onto a wooden floor, his houndstooth-upholstered armchair, the low-slung couch draped with a colorful Guatemalan blanket.—
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Meanwhile, Teyana Taylor also went the cutout route in a black Schiaparelli dress that draped around her body.—
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“Festooned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/festooned. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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