Girl in the reconstruction of a medieval dress decorated with scallops
Feston ( fr. Feston ) - in applied art and painting , as well as in tailor's art, a decorative element , an ornamental strip with a downward-looking pattern in the form of leaves , flowers , stepped teeth, isosceles triangles , etc. It came from natural plaits with which the ancient Greeks and Romans on religious and other holidays ( lat. festa ) decorated buildings, openings, heads of sacrificial animals. It is found on coins and medals, mainly at the end of the 18th century , for example, on the Pfennig of Ludwig IX of Hesse-Darmstadt (1768-1790).
Sources
- Feston // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Feston // Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language : in 4 volumes / auth. V.I. Dahl . - 2nd ed. - SPb. : Printing house of M.O. Wolf , 1880-1882.
- Definition of feston in Wiktionary