feston
Letters
6 characters
Language
French
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feston is aFrenchnoun. It means: Guirlande de feuilles ou faisceau de petites branches d’arbre garnies de leurs feuilles et entremêlées de fleurs, de fruits, etc., qui sert ordinairement de décoration, et que l’on suspend alors pa... Pronounced \fɛs.tɔ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feston |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛs.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for feston is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛs.tɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for feston in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is feston, spelled F-E-S-T-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Guirlande de feuilles ou faisceau de petites branches d’arbre garnies de leurs feuilles et entremêlées de fleurs, de fruits, etc., qui sert ordinairement de décoration, et que l’on suspend alors par les extrémités, de manière que le milieu retombe comme un arc.
- 2Rameau d’un arbre courbé comme un feston.
- 3Décoration en forme de festons dont les architectes, les sculpteurs, les peintres ornent leurs ouvrages.
- 4Collerette de papier.
- 5(Couture) Découpures en forme de festons.
- 6Broderies ou découpes brodées, en forme de festons, que l'on fait sur le pourtour des rideaux, mouchoirs, napperons…
- 7Draperie de tenture relevée en feston.
- 8Dans les régions de terrains plissés, nom donné au recouvrement des couches externes par les couches plus internes.
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