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festoon

verb as in decorate

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One showed camouflage fatigues worn by a Colombian fighter festooned with patches that include the flag of Ukraine.

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Everywhere I look, I see shop windows, prams and women's hairdos festooned with blue, white and red Norwegian flags.

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Davies Symphony Hall, where Tilson Thomas presided over the San Francisco Symphony for an influential quarter century, was festooned with giant blue balloons.

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After a costume change, the show’s second act began with “America Has a Problem,” which Beyoncé sang at a news podium festooned with microphones, then zoomed through “Spaghettii,” “Formation,” “My House” and “Diva.”

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It’s smartly written, festooned with quirky business, farcical situations, droll asides.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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