Word of theDay for Sunday, September 8 2019

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

Write a sentence or two using the word Festoon, add it to the comments section below.

Festoon Part of speech: verb Origin: French, 17th century 1 To decorate, embellish, or ornament 2 To hang a decorative strip between two fixed points Examples of Festoon in a sentence"Before the surprise party, I had to festoon the entryway with streamers and decorations.""College students love to festoon their dorm rooms with all kinds of trinkets."

Comments

[leethet.livejournal.com]

This is actually funny because as I was re-reading Sorcerer's Stone I was horrified, yet again, to see "festoon" used as a noun. God almighty. It is NOT "Festoons of holly bedecked the halls" for god's sake. It is "the hall was festooned (verb) with holly."

I expected better English of an Englishwoman. :-)

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

The noun is almost 200 years older than the verb.