festoon
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“It affects us all,” said Hussein, 22, who lives and works near Sparkhill, a largely Muslim neighborhood in Birmingham, where Palestinian flags flutter above shops and festoon a nearby park.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
Found materials, including street signage rulers, ornithology illustrations and children’s drawings, festoon the canvas, mingling with hurried chalk annotations and prays of gestural brushwork resembling graffiti.
From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2024
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
“But I am not a fortune-teller,” he said, letting his head drop into a festoon of towel, and towelling away at his two ears.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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