festoon
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Customers are paying them hundreds—sometimes thousands—of dollars to festoon their homes with gourds of every shape and size.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025
This spring, billions of cicadas across the eastern half of the U.S. will emerge from their multiyear slumber to festoon the trees and sing their loud songs.
From Slate • Apr. 14, 2024
Filaments of dust and gas festoon this star-forming region in a new infrared image from MIRI.
From Science Daily • Oct. 11, 2023
Images of and homages to the statue now festoon the city.
From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2021
Flags festoon the theater’s heights, the red-and-gold pennant of Gens Taia snapping in the wind beside the black, diamond-emblazoned standard of Blackcliff.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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