eisteddfod
noun
(in Wales) an annual festival, with competitions among poets and musicians.
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Richard Davies was born at Llanbrynmair, January 10th, 1833, and was brought up as a farmer, but latterly, at any rate, devoted himself almost entirely to literary and eisteddfodic pursuits.
From Welsh Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century by Edmund O. Jones