festoon
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If your social-worker friend envies your designer clothes, you don’t have to ditch your Prada for rags, but it’s probably better not to festoon your outfit with your biggest diamond.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Filaments of dust and gas festoon this star-forming region in a new infrared image from MIRI.
From Science Daily • Oct. 11, 2023
Here, millions of butterflies festoon the trees in shuddering layers so thick it’s impossible to see the foliage beneath.
From Slate • Oct. 11, 2022
And by plant, I mean play, adorn and festoon the landscape with seasonal compositions that echo colorful detailing on the house.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 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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