festoon
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Is festoon a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (architecture) A bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling such an ornament.Examples: "The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise."
2. (astronomy) 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.
3. (acarology) Any of a series of wrinkles on the backs of some ticks.
4. (technology) 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.
5. (manufacturing) Two sets of rollers used to create a buffer of material on web handling equipment.
6. (dentistry) Texturing applied to a denture to simulate human tissue.
verb (English)
1. (dentistry, transitive) To apply texturing to (a denture) to simulate human tissue.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary