0 to decorate a room or other place for a special occasion by hanging coloured paper, lights, or flowers around it, especially in curves:
1 a decorative chain made of coloured paper, flowers, etc. hung in a curve between two points
2 to decorate a place or thing with strips of cloth or chains of paper, lights, flowers, etc.:
Festoons deeply incised, longer than broad, the trenchant edges of the ventral festoons protruding beyond the body and visible dorsally.
Red-brown plaques correspond to the festoons on either side.
I can only conclude that what they have in mind is a kind of petrified forest festooned with rules, regulations and controls, and possibly rations.
The best evidence for that is the gallimaufry and mishmash of new clauses and new schedules with which we have been festooned during the debate.
One can imagine a small van festooned with tags.
To my mind, it would be a thousand pities if it was festooned with pylons and electric cables or was taken bit by bit for industrial development.
Are they to be told that they will have to wash their clothes in their rooms so that their clothes will be festooned around their bed-sits?
The plicae are somewhat acuminately produced upon the upper carina, which, when viewed from above, presents a prettily festooned appearance.