FESTOONS

"FESTOONS" is a plural of: festoon.

Date "FESTOONS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)

Domain	Definition
Occupations	Two banks of evenly spaced rollers in FOUR-ROLL CALENDER used for accumulating fabric to maintain continuous operations while making roll changes and for taking up slack in fabric prior to calendering. (references)
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Synonym: FESTOONS

Synonym: Garlands. (additional references)

Synonym by domain: festooning (mining).

Crosswords: FESTOONS

English words defined with "FESTOONS": emerald creeper, Encarpus ♦ festoon, Festoony ♦ jade vine ♦ long moss ♦ old man's beard ♦ Spanish moss, Strongylodon macrobotrys ♦ Tillandsia usneoides. (references)

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Law courts and street festoons, Diamond Jubilee, London, England. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

"FESTOONS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FESTOONS" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	100%	20	78,262

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "FESTOONS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		guirlandes d'alimentation. (various references)

German		Girlanden (garlands). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		注連飾り (sacred Shinto rope with festoons), 標飾り (sacred Shinto rope with festoons). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しめかざり (sacred Shinto rope with festoons). (various references)

Pig Latin		estoonsfay

Scottish		fleasgair (a barge or boat hung with festoons). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	sertum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"FESTOONS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: estoon, fastoon, festoojn, festoond, festos, Fewston, Feystown, fistoon. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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	Direct Anagrams: eftsoons.
	Words within the letters "e-f-n-o-o-s-s-t"
	-1 letter: eftsoon, festoon, softens, soonest.
	-2 letters: nooses, onsets, setons, snoots, soften, stenos, stones.
	-3 letters: fonts, foots, fosse, nests, noose, noses, notes, often, onset, seton, snoot, snots, softs, sones, soots, steno, stone, tones, toons.
	-4 letters: efts, eons, fens, fess, fets, foes, fons, font, foot, foss, ness, nest, nets, noes, nose, note, ones, onto, oots, oses, sent.
	Words containing the letters "e-f-n-o-o-s-s-t"
	+2 letters: flowstones, footstones.
	+3 letters: frontolyses, housefronts, shorefronts, storefronts.
	+4 letters: femtoseconds, festooneries, footlessness, footsoreness, foreshortens, forestations, teaspoonfuls, teaspoonsful, toploftiness.
	+5 letters: colorfastness, frontogeneses, frontogenesis, sternforemost, stoloniferous.
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FESTOONS

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Synonym: FESTOONS

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festoons

Modern Translation: FESTOONS

French

German

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Pig Latin

Scottish

Ancestral Language Translations: FESTOONS

Misspellings: FESTOONS

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Anagrams: FESTOONS

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INDEX

Expression	Frequency per Day
festoons	4
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