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The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English | Date: 2008
festoon • noun
a festoon of flowerssynonyms: garland, wreath, chaplet, lei, swag.
© The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English 2008, originally published by Oxford University Press 2008.
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