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Garnish vs Festoon - What's the difference?

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Garnish is a synonym of festoon.


As verbs the difference between garnish and festoon

is that garnish is to decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish while festoon is to hang ornaments, such as garlands or chains, which hang loosely from two tacked spots.

As nouns the difference between garnish and festoon

is that garnish is a set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types while festoon is an ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots.

garnish

English

Verb

  • To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.
  • * Spenser
    • All within with flowers was garnished .
  • (cooking) To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
  • To furnish; to supply.
    • By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. (Job 26:13, KJV)
  • (slang, archaic) To fit with fetters; to fetter
    • (Johnson)
  • (legal) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee.

    • Derived terms

    * garnishee * garnishment * garnishor

    Related terms

    * garrison * garment

    Noun

    (garnishes)
  • A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
  • Pewter vessels in general.
  • * 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 478:
    • The accounts of collegiate and monastic institutions give abundant entries of the price of pewter vessels, called also garnish .
  • Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially when showy or decorated.
  • * Shakespeare
    • So are you, sweet, / Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.
  • * Prior
    • Matter and figure they produce; / For garnish this, and that for use.
  • (cookery) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
  • (slang, obsolete) Fetters.
  • (slang, historical) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.
    • (Fielding)

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    festoon

    English

    (wikipedia festoon)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots.
  • (architecture) A bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling such an ornament.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
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  • A raised cable with light globes attached.
  • (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.
  • (entomology) Any of a series of wrinkles on the backs of some ticks.
  • (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.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To hang ornaments, such as garlands or chains, which hang loosely from two tacked spots.
  • To make festoons.
  • To decorate or bedeck abundantly.
  • * 2005 , Judith Martin, Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior , Norton, p. 804:
    • A mysterious woman who shows up at a funeral more droopily festooned in black than the widow is making what is known as a fashion statement.
  • * 2014 September 23, " Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents", (The Guardian) :
    • Some teachers festoon every spare inch of wall with vocabulary choices or maths techniques to use, which look great at first, but to some children might appear quite daunting. You'll probably see unfamiliar acronyms such as Walt (We Are Learning To). Be sure to ask what they stand for and how they are used in practice.
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