Word Finder - festoon

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An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots.

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A bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling such an ornament.

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A raised cable with light globes attached.

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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.

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(acarology) Any of a series of wrinkles on the backs of some ticks.

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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.

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Two sets of rollers used to create a buffer of material on web handling equipment.

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Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Zerynthia.

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Texturing applied to a denture to simulate human tissue.

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To decorate with ornaments, such as garlands or chains, which hang loosely from two tacked spots.

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To make festoons.

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To decorate or bedeck abundantly.

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To apply texturing to (a denture) to simulate human tissue.

New Zealand is part of the Australasian festoon, on the Pacific edge of the Australasian area.

Lianas Lianas are climbing woody vines that festoon rainforest trees.

The room was tastefully decorated, and outside the premises hung a beautiful festoon containing a suitable motto.

But they have been separated by the foundering of the Coral Sea and the Tasman Sea, which divided the continent of Australia from the islands of the Australasian festoon; and the foundering of the band across Australia, from the Gulf of Carpentaria, through western Queensland and western New South Wales, to the lower basin of the Murray, has separated the Archean areas of eastern and western Australia.

The Mesozoic begins with a Triassic land period in the mainland of Australia; while the islands of the Australasian festoon contain the Triassic marine limestones, which fringe the whole of the Pacific. The Triassic beds are best known in New South Wales, where round Sydney they include a series of sandstones and shales.

The folds are part of an extensive system arranged as if in a festoon hanging southwards between Peshawar and Mount Ararat, but with the outer folds looped up at Sibi so as to form the subsidiary festoon of the Suliman and Bugti Hills.

New Caledonia is part of the Australasian Festoon, and in its general characters resembles the geology of New Zealand.