Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Ireland An Irish festival, usually including folk music, dancing, and sports.
- n. Ireland An Irish gathering at which new laws were decreed, as well as folk music, dancing, and sports.
Etymologies
- From Irish feis. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Martin Percival and The Martin Percival School of Irish Dance is excited and pleased to announce the school's first annual "feis", or Irish Dance competition, called "Oktoberfeis" to be held at the Tivoli Student Union in downtown Denver, October 3 rd and 4 th, 2008.”
“Martin Percival and The Martin Percival School of Irish Dance are excited and pleased to announce the school's first annual "feis", or Irish Dance competition, called "Oktoberfeis" to be held at the Tivoli Student Union in downtown Denver, October 3 rd and 4 th, 2008.”
“feis", or Irish Dance competition, called "Oktoberfeis" to be held at the Tivoli Student Union in downtown Denver, October 3 rd and 4 th, 2008.”
“After the Glasthule feis, back last year, after he had packed his parcel and made his goodbye to his mother, and to Jim, Doyler had walked to Dublin of course.”
“Item, gevin to Maister Michael Durehame, doctour in medecyne, be one precept in recompensatioun of service done be him to our Sovernne Lord, quhome God assolze, and for the rest of his feis, as his said precept beris, £200.”
“In the Treasurer's Accounts 1572, we also find that different sums were allowed us "feis extraordinar" to most of these officials, for services rendered "in the tyme of troubill.”
“Then there was boiled yam, boiled taro, and roasted feis, which last are nothing more or less than large mealy, juicy, red-coloured cooking bananas.”
“There were yams, taro. feis, breadfruit, cocoanuts, oranges. limes, pineapples, watermelons, alligator pears, pomegranates, fish. chickens galore crowing and cackling and laying eggs on our decks. and a live pig that squealed infernally and all the time in perpetual apprehension of imminent slaughter.”
“Kanakas who made up the crew, were squatted round a basin of fried feis, and drinking coffee from tin mugs.”
“Père Olivier apologized for the meager fare, but we did well enough, with soup and a tin of boiled beef, breadfruit, and _feis_.”
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Not 250 Spelling Words Again
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An Irish Dancer's Vocabulary
reel, jig, slip jig, hornpipe, treble, treble jig, set dance, feiseanna, feis, ghillies, oireachtas, céilidh and 13 more...
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