Word for the Day, Monday, December 8th, 2008-- festoon

12/8/08 | xs

[xsmommy]

Word For The Day, Monday, 12/8/08

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

festoon; noun/verb

1. a string or chain of flowers, foliage, ribbon, etc., suspended in a curve between two points. 2. a decorative representation of this, as in architectural work or on pottery. 3. a fabric suspended, draped, and bound at intervals to form graceful loops or scalloped folds. 4. Dentistry. the garlandlike area of the gums surrounding the necks of the teeth. –verb (used with object) 5. to adorn with or as with festoons: to festoon a hall. 6. to form into festoons: to festoon flowers and leaves. 7. Dentistry. to reproduce natural gum patterns around the teeth or a denture. 8. to connect by festoons

Etymology: 1670–80; < F feston < It festone decoration for a feast, deriv. of festa festa

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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[xsmommy]

happy bday to your boy!!!

[little jeremiah]

0bama’s “holiday” tree - if they have one, he already stated they don’t celebrate Christmas with presents [maybe at all?] - will probably be festooned with little replicas of Fairey’s commie art, along with cute little red and green hammer and sickles, and little shiney “black power” upraised fists - and for the top of the tree, the Islamic crescent!

[xsmommy]

A+ and i can definitely picture that!

[xsmommy]

wonder what Einstein thought this was a good idea.

[tioga]

wanna bet the teacher who deliberately did that will not get fired?

[secret garden]

Whoever authorized these field trips is insane.

That pathologist just issued the world's biggest understatement. I've been to morgues to collect tissue(I worked in a pathology lab right out of grad school) and they are gruesome environments. People pass out and throw up all the time. I just breathed evenly and focused on the task at hand, trying not to notice everything else in the rooms. I couldn't do that on a daily basis.

[secret garden]

Thank you, I’ll pass on your good wishes to him!

[tioga]

thankfully, I have a whole year to prepare for the sight of Michelle decorating the White House for the birth of Jesus..........(((((shudder)))))

[tioga]

I am grouchy today.....hurt my knee lugging a heavy bag on a squad call......no festooning here today, not yet anyway. I had aches in my knee all night long and woke up to irritable to even FReep.

[tioga]

I am grouchy today.....hurt my knee lugging a heavy bag on a squad call......no festooning here today, not yet anyway. I had aches in my knee all night long and woke up too irritable to FReep

[tioga]

(((shaking head)))....I thought the first post was lost in cyber space...I couldn’t find it, then there it was......back to haunt me.

[xsmommy]

hope your day turns around and that your knees give you some relief, can you put your legs up for awhile today?

[xsmommy]

xshub’s bday is thurs, but we will postpone celebrating it til sunday. xsteen will be home and we will go to xsboy’s travel hockey game that AM and then brunch at ANCC, and Mass at 7pm, i guess.

[xsmommy]

something cool/macabre that we saw in Rome was the Capuchin crypt. Capuchin monks would bury their dead and then ended up creating chapels with bones of the dead monks. everything in there is a bone. there is the chapel of the pelvises, chapel of leg/thigh bones etc. i saw it in my Travel book and insisted we find it, as i am sure not everyone sees it.

[secret garden]

We just celebrated my birthday last night, a week later but it was just fine. Teriyaki grilled salmon. Very good.

[secret garden]

Lovely from a distance, creepy up close.

[secret garden]

Speaking of capuchins, is that Marcel at the rodeo?

[xsmommy]

sounds very yummy! celebrating is more about the who/where than the when, don’t you think?

[xsmommy]

ride ‘em, cowmonkey!

[secret garden]

Yes it is. I am cracking up about ride’em cow-monkey. That is our favorite part of rodeo. How can anyone watch those monkeys riding border collies and not love that, with their little hats bouncing up and down? The spouse laughs til he cries every time we see them.