festa

[ fes-tuh ]

/ ˈfɛs tə /

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noun

a feast, festival, or holiday.

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Origin of festa

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

Words nearby festa

fesse, Fessenden, fesse point, fess point, fest, festa, festal, fester, festina lente, festinate, festination

How to use festa in a sentence

The marriage festa was celebrated in Palazzo Riccardi with great magnificence.
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa|Edward Hutton
We will make it his festa also and afterwards we shall be discovering his day in the calendario.
Castellinaria|Henry Festing Jones
Læti tunc dies, festa loca, quæcumque adventu hospitioque dignatur.
The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies|Robert Gordon Latham
On the 15th of September of that year, which is its festa, another image of wood is carried processionally with much pomp.
The Mysteries of All Nations|James Grant

For days before the festa they go about Catania with trays collecting soldi from all they meet.
Castellinaria|Henry Festing Jones