[f. as prec. + -ERY.] collect. A group of objects arranged in festoons; a festoon-like arrangement.

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1836.  Blackw. Mag., XXXIX., March, 352/1. How exquisitely beautiful were the hedges, such tracery, and every thing in them so bent, and communicating with each other, as if conscious of, and pleased with their festoonery of silver.

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1864.  Hawthorne, Grimshawe, viii. (1891), 91. The singular aspect of the room into which he was ushered, the spider festoonery, and other strange accompaniments.

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1881.  Mayne Reid, Free Lances, I. v. 57. The rumbling of wheels heard through the drooping festoonery of the trees, proclaimed that a second carriage was approaching along the Shell Road.

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