feast

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Palasi then inquired if the feast was a good feast, and the custom a good custom, and was assured that both of these things were true.

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  1. noun A large, elaborately prepared meal, usually for many persons and often accompanied by entertainment; a banquet.
  2. noun A meal that is well prepared and abundantly enjoyed.
  3. noun A periodic religious festival commemorating an event or honoring a god or saint.

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  • The love-feast was immediately after; the master of the feast was there: I felt his presence and spoke.—Mr. —  Religion in Earnest
  • And full compensation their stomachs get, as the feast is a literal gorge of meat and drink. —  Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
  • Only men who or whose families have provided at least one pig for the feast are allowed to join in the dancing. —  The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea
  • The men who came to tell of the final completion of the tree and the greater preparations for the feast were assured that the one tiny guest for whom their labors of love were being expended would surely be ready to enjoy the celebration The afternoon gave way to night in the manner common to wintry days. —  Bruvver Jim's Baby
  • By the friction of white-cedar wood for the feast was a Virgin-fire [20] kindled. —  The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems
 

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festival ·  banquet ·  ceremony ·  celebration ·  dinner ·  entertainment ·  festivity ·  sacrifice ·  procession ·  dance ·  gift ·  repast

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feast:   feasts ·  feasting ·  feasted
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  1. Middle English feste, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *fēsta, from Latin, pl. of fēstum, from fēstus, festive; see dhēs- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English feeste, feste, fest, from Old French feste, French fête (see fête, n.) = Provencal festa = Spanish fiesta = Portuguese Italian festa = Dutch feest = G. Danish Swedish fest, from Latin festa, plural of festum, a holiday, festival, feast, neuter of festus, joyous, festive, belonging to a holiday (dies festus, a holiday); cf. feriæ (for *fesiæ), holidays (whence English fair, q. v.). Hence (from Latin festum) festal, festival, etc.
  2. from Middle English feesten, festen, from Old French fester (modern F. fêter) = Italian festare, from Middle Latin festare, feast; from the noun.
 

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