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Feast day   /fist deɪ/   Listen
noun
Feast  n.  
1.
A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. "The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord." "Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover." Note: An Ecclesiastical feast is called a immovable feast when it always occurs on the same day of the year; otherwise it is called a movable feast. Easter is a notable movable feast.
2.
A festive or joyous meal; a grand, ceremonious, or sumptuous entertainment, of which many guests partake; a banquet characterized by tempting variety and abundance of food. "Enough is as good as a feast." "Belshazzar the King made a great feast to a thousand of his lords."
3.
That which is partaken of, or shared in, with delight; something highly agreeable; entertainment. "The feast of reason, and the flow of soul."
Feast day, a holiday; a day set as a solemn commemorative festival.
Synonyms: Entertainment; regale; banquet; treat; carousal; festivity; festival. Feast, Banquet, Festival, Carousal. A feast sets before us viands superior in quantity, variety, and abundance; a banquet is a luxurious feast; a festival is the joyful celebration by good cheer of some agreeable event. Carousal is unrestrained indulgence in frolic and drink.





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"Feast day" Quotes from Famous Books



... mixing bowls and well-wrought double beakers, and others again go for water to the well, and return with it right speedily. For the wooers will not long be out of the hall but will return very early, for it is a feast day, yea ...
— DONE INTO ENGLISH PROSE • S. H. BUTCHER, M.A.
... and then a word of French, that it is no wonder that Jules grew bewildered in trying to follow her. She had to begin again at the beginning, and speak very slowly, in order to make him understand that it was a feast day of some kind, and that he, Jules, was invited to some sort of a strange, wonderful entertainment in Monsieur Greville's garden. "But Brossard is away from home," said Jules, "and there is no one to watch the goats, and keep them ...
— The Gate of the Giant Scissors • Annie Fellows Johnston
... Must the feast day Be the least day, Robbed of all the things we'd seek? Must our proud day Be a shroud day With rehearsals ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher
... feast day of the year on the Island, a beautiful bright sunny June day. On a plateau the men played at the hurley and putting the stone; and there was a tug of war for married men and single, and after that for the women, amid much jollity and laughter. Above ...
— An Isle in the Water • Katharine Tynan
... are you standing there for, stupid?' cried his wife. 'Take up the hare. A nice fat hare is a dinner for a feast day.' ...
— The Violet Fairy Book • Various


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