feast day

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noun

a day, especially a church holiday, for feasting and rejoicing.

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RELATED WORDS

ceremony, holiday, commemoration, festival, jubilee, recurrence

Nearby words

fearsome, feasance, feasibility study, feasible, feast, feast day, feast of dedication, feast of fools, feast of lights, feast of lots, feast of orthodoxy

Origin of feast day

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300

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Examples from the Web for feast day

Decked in feast-day raiment the damsel sleeps in the rest of death, after all her sufferings.
Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886)|Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
Fortunately, on the night of the feast-day a thick fog arose and enveloped the citadel.
The World's Greatest Books, Vol VIII|Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.
If you enjoy a lively time, by all means go by express to Bagheria on a festa or feast-day.
Vistas in Sicily|Arthur Stanley Riggs
The launching of that flatboat was made a feast-day in the neighborhood.
The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln|Wayne Whipple

"And all this on the feast-day," muttered Arbaces, turning into his house with a heavy heart.
Sarchedon|G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville