festa

[ fes-tuh ]

noun

1. a feast, festival, or holiday.

Word History and Origins

Origin of festa¹

1810–20; < Italian < Latin: holiday, plural of fēstum. See fest

Example Sentences

The marriage festa was celebrated in Palazzo Riccardi with great magnificence.

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We will make it his festa also and afterwards we shall be discovering his day in the calendario.

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Læti tunc dies, festa loca, quæcumque adventu hospitioque dignatur.

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On the 15th of September of that year, which is its festa, another image of wood is carried processionally with much pomp.

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For days before the festa they go about Catania with trays collecting soldi from all they meet.

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