Word Of The Week: Festoons

1. Festoons

2. Read it in the book titled Chocolat.

3. I made my way gently home through the back streets, with its close, dark, almost windowless walls, broken only by the washing lines slung casually from balcony to balcony or by a single window box trailing green festoons of convulvulus.

4. Festoons (Noun):  A string or garland, as of leaves or flowers, suspended in a loop or curve between two points.

5. My neighbor Patrick decorated his bedroom with festoons of aluminum beer cans strung from one wall to another.