feast day

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

QUIZZES

It’d be a real faux pas to miss this quiz on the words from August 3–9, 2020!

Question 1 of 7

What does “vacillate” mean?

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300

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