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Festive cloth that turns any boring railing into a reason to celebrate.
means Bunting is decorative fabric, usually hung in strings of flags, triangles, or draped swags, used to brighten streets and buildings for celebrations and public events.
from The word's roots are genuinely murky. One plausible line traces it to an old English dialect verb 'bunt,' meaning to sift — bunting was once a loosely woven cloth used for sifting flour, and that same airy, open-weave fabric was later made into flags. From sieve-cloth to celebration, possibly; the connection is likely but not certain. There's no relation to the small bird also called a bunting, which carries its own unrelated and equally obscure history.
- naval origin
- Named after loosely woven wool used for ship flags.
- the bird
- Also a finch family with dazzling, jewel-toned males.
- baseball move
- A soft tap that sacrifices the batter to advance runners.
- baby gear
- A snug infant sleeping bag also bears the name.
- royal staple
- Jubilees and weddings drape Britain in red-white-blue triangles.
bunting flag tradition — decorative flags used at the 2012 london olympics and british coronations for centuries
bunting bird genus — emberiza genus containing 40+ species like the yellowhammer across europe and asia
bunting baseball technique — sacrifice bunt strategy perfected by players like ichiro suzuki in mlb since 1901