swags in English

noun

1

a curtain or piece of fabric fastened so as to hang in a drooping curve.

In fact, to listen to her, you would think the flesh hung from her shoulders like swags from a curtain rail.

2

money or goods taken by a thief or burglar.

their homes offer tempting swag for burglars

3

a traveler's or miner's bundle of personal belongings.

During the Depression when you were a young girl, a very young girl in fact, of course this was still a period when men with swags walked the country roads in search of a job, in search of a meal.

verb

1

arrange in or decorate with a swag or swags of fabric.

swag the fabric gracefully over the curtain tie-backs

2

travel with one's personal belongings in a bundle.

swagging it in Queensland

3

hang heavily.

the crinkly old hide swags here and there

noun

• booty, loot, prize, pillage, dirty money, plunder

verb

• flag, sag, droop
• keel, stagger, lurch, careen, reel

Use "swags" in a sentence

1. All the facades are richly embellished with swags and classical ornamentation.

2. We offer every Curtain style; from valances, tiers, swags, panels and drapes.

3. Putting our "Swags" upon our backs, we started off "on the wallaby.

4. Valances, Swags, Jabots, and Cornices add softness, color, and style to any window

5. Swags Galore, America's Online Curtain Superstore, Home of the Largest Section of Kitchen Curtains, Valances & Lace Curtains Swags Galore, America's Online Curtain Superstore offers the largest selection of readymade Curtains, draperies, valances, kitchen Curtains for all the rooms in your home

6. Baskets of flowers, Bowknots, garlands, and swags appear frequently as appliqué, pieced, and whitework motifs in American quilts made in the first half of the nineteenth century

7. Typical forms of Bunting are strings of colorful triangular flags and lengths of fabric in the colors of national flags gathered and draped into swags or pleated into fan shapes.

8. The Country Porch features country style Curtains, country window Curtain valances, kitchen Curtain tiers, swags, and tieback Curtain panels made of 100% cotton from Park Designs, Victorian Heart, IHF Home, Home Collections by Raghu, C&F Enterprises and The American Country Porch Curtain Collection.

9. The Country Porch features Country style curtains, Country window curtain valances, kitchen curtain tiers, swags, and tieback curtain panels made of 100% cotton from Park Designs, Victorian Heart, IHF Home, Home Collections by Raghu, C&F Enterprises and The American Country Porch Curtain Collection.

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11. Country style Curtains are plentiful at Swags Galore with styles like European Toile layered over soft bridal lace balloon shades or maybe a Buffalo Check curtain with a macramé boarder layered over a sheer curtain and there’s always just a plain white lace panel accented with a lace top treatment

12. Of bubbles foaming, spied the Albicores, The blue-fined admirals, heard the wind-swallowed cries Of planters running on the beach Who filched their swags of yams and ambergris, Birds' nests and sandalwood, from pastures numbed By the sun's yellow, too meek for honest theft; But he, less delicate robber, climbed the walls, Broke into dozing houses

13. A pair of Edwardian satinwood, yew-wood-banded and marquetry bonheurs du jour, each inlaid with lines and husk swags, the superstructure with a shaped arched back and open compartment flanked by a fitted enclosed cupboard to either side, with a hinged Baized lined writing surface and frieze drawer, on square tapering legs, -- 26½in.(67cm.) wide, 19in.