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Festoons vs Embellishment - What's the difference?

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Festoons is a related term of embellishment.


As nouns the difference between festoons and embellishment

is that festoons is while embellishment is an unnecessarily added touch, an ornamental addition, a flourish.

As a verb festoons

is (festoon).

festoons

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (festoon)

    • Anagrams

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    embellishment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An unnecessarily added touch, an ornamental addition, a flourish.
    • 1811' ''Reflection had given calmness to her judgment, and sobered her own opinion of Willoughby's deserts; -- she wished, therefore, to declare only the simple truth, and lay open such facts as were really due to his character, without any '''embellishment of tenderness to lead the fancy astray.'' Jane Austen, ''Sense and Sensibility , Section 3, Chapter 1.