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Decorative strip
Answer for the clue "Decorative strip ", 8 letters:
streamer
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Word definitions for streamer in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE long ▪ Even a long crêpe streamer will straighten a spinning kite. ▪ The male has two long tail streamers , and females prefer the males with the longest streamers. ▪ Smoke trailed in long streamers drifting off ...
Usage examples of streamer.
One bright afternoon, a gig, gaily bedizened with streamers, was observed to shove off from the side of one of the French frigates, and pull directly for our gangway.
Horses and bicycles were outlawed, but there were wheelchairs galore with fox tails fluttering from the ends of makeshift wands and tinsel streamers bedizening their chrome utility.
The coffin of the Countess was put to rest there until the buriers should come to bury it in the morning, the wreaths and flowers and streamers were laid over it, the priest sprinkled it again with holy water, and then the funeral was at an end.
Festooned with a brave display of heraldry, she flew a pennoncel at the masthead, the standard of Eldaraigne at the forecastle, four other banners aft, including the yellow ensign of the Merchant Service, and streamers, thirty yards long, charged with yellow dragons, blue lozenges, and white birds.
A mellow sea-breeze came cantering out of the west to lift among the sails the Royal Heraldry of the pennoncels and the long ribbons of streamers, the gay banners and the swallow-tailed gittons, laying them straight along its flowing mane.
The brightly colored streamers flying from their pitot tubes lent them a strange, almost festive appearance.
The brightly coloured streamers flying from their pitot tubes lent them a strange, almost festive appearance.
The prowler skin lashings held but the canvas and blankets were ripped into streamers that cracked like rifle shots in the wind before they were torn completely loose and flung into the night.
Manatassi ordered it quenched with water from the pool, and once again they stared into the dark passage from which wisps and streamers of smoke still drifted.
They were in shore-going rig - wide-brimmed white sennit hats, Watchetblue jackets with brass buttons, black silk neckerchiefs, white duck trousers and very small shoes - but with no ribbons in the seams or coloured streamers: a sober finery.
Many of them trailed swirling black streamers of earth and yellow motes, which were agricultural robots plummeting vertically through the swarm, while military drift-ships hovered outside it against a brilliant background of sunlit ocean, monolithic clouds, and the seriate towers along the coast.
I have to use my field generators to create a sunspot underneath you as you descend, a cooler area, with a helmet streamer to create a flow of cooler plasma, a stream the Phoenix can follow to come down here to my dock.
With a grunt of satisfaction, he took from his belt a sharp stake with a bright streamer of cloth at the unpointed end.
Like an untethered kite, this way and that, trailing streamers of blood.
Multi-spectrum photon amps tracked the tormented streamers of cloud as they streaked towards England, building in power, in velocity.