festoon
noun
a string or chain of flowers, foliage, ribbon, etc., suspended in a curve between two points.
was festooning
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past progressiveof festoon.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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As he did so, he noticed that the smoke was within the room as well as without; it was festooning about the baby's cradle, it was filling the place, there was scarcely air to breathe.
From A Loose End and Other Stories by Hall, S. Elizabeth
