Posted on 12/08/2008 5:11:18 AM PST by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 12/8/08
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
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
A++ because you used the noun form and i am not sure anyone else did. Hope that work wasn’t too distressing after a week off!
are the spurs in the knee area or elsewhere? You poor thing, enough is enough with those legs!
AcccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkKKKKKKKKKKKKKK! I had the foreign priest and never heard it and of course I FORGOT! i am a sinner.......
possible bone spurs in the knees......the doc suspects them, but wants to see the MRI from my last doctor first. I go back in February.......till then....I suffer.
For Ann Coulter’s B-day, the place should be festooned with streamers:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2144835/posts
That’s what I like about you. Nobody else got that joke. It’s good to have a recondite sense of humor.
thanks! but why’d ya have to bring gary condit into this? ; )
you can go skating!!!
oh the male freepers were festooning up a storm for ann! A++
since we went to 7pm Sunday Mass it was easy to remember we had to go again on Monday. Xsboy goes to Mass with his class at school, xshub went at lunch near his ofc, i could have done the same but with xsbrownie in the secular school now, i had to take her, so we went last evening.
here in the Rochester diocese we have the African priests.......I did not understand one word of his homily.....not one. He was very theatrical...so he was amusing, but not one word did I understand.
oh we have one too, don’t feel burdened. i think almost all dioceses must have at least one, i think Africa may be putting out more priests than any other country.
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