a. rare. [f. as prec. + -Y1.] Of, pertaining to, or resembling a festoon; in quot. of a person: Making festoon-like movements.
1843. Sir J. Herschel, Let., Jrnl. Asiat. Soc., VII. 202. Your account of it throws on it the only ray of elucidation I have yet seen, in the festoony or ripply waves of the sand.
1864. in Webster, quoting Sir J. Herschel.
1884. Baring-Gould, Mehalah, xxi. 287. The close [of her round] saw her thick of speech, leery of eye, festoony of walk.
