Meaning & use
Bunting
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Decorative strips of colored fabric, ribbons, or flags used to festoon buildings and streets for celebrations.
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Red, white, and blue bunting hung from every lamppost for the festival.
The stadium was decorated with bunting ahead of the championship game.
A note on using this word
Also refers to a small seed-eating songbird and, in baseball, to a technique of tapping the ball softly with a stationary bat.
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2. noun
A small, often brightly colored, seed-eating songbird related to finches and sparrows.
A snow bunting landed briefly on the fence post.
3. noun
In baseball, the act of hitting the ball softly by holding the bat stationary rather than swinging.
He laid down a perfect bunt to advance the runner into scoring position.
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