bunting
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- noun
- /ˈbʌntɪŋ/
:
banderín
- There was grey bunting draped here and there, which meant that someone had died.
- blue bunting
- white bunting
- bunting banner
So this is snowflake paper, sort of paper Lantern, snowflake bunting, which I thought was nice.
- So this is snowflake paper, sort of paper Lantern, snowflake bunting, which I thought was nice.
- If you have like AT shirt or like a scrap piece of fabric, it's kind of like how you do the sock bunting with the hair.
Examples
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A lone volunteer tapes red, white, and blue bunting around the perimeter of the room.
Fiction book (1992) -
"My parents are providing the bunting for the boats," she offered.
Fiction book (1994) -
Then I also got some heart bunting, which I thought that I could hang up.
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You know that come all the different seasons, I have some form of bunting to represent that time of the year.
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Both decorated in pennants and bunting, connected to each other by a gangway six stories up.
Fiction book (1994) -
Day 2: A long shot of an enormous crowd thronging a bunting-trimmed platform.
Fiction book (2000) -
Remember that year I sewed a jacket and bunting out of coordinating party fabric?
Blog text (28) -
Pink carpets specially laid out for my service... ...and pink silk bunting draped over anything that would stand still.
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Every beam, sill, shelf, and knob was draped in black bunting, with streamers of black crepe looped around darkened mirrors.
Fiction book (1990) -
The party was beautifully decorated with colorful bunting hanging from the ceiling.
Compounds
A small North American songbird with bright blue feathers on the male during breeding season
- UK
A small songbird that lives among reeds by water with a streaked brown back and males with black heads
A small brown songbird from Europe and western Asia sometimes eaten as a special food
A small songbird with a bright yellow belly that lives in Russia and Siberia
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bunting for the cloth and flags comes from an old name for a light, loose cloth once used on ships and at public events, where it was made into small flags and banners. So today 'bunting' means the small decorative flags or the lightweight fabric used to make them.