Saturnalia
noun
the festival of Saturn, celebrated in December in ancient Rome as a time of unrestrained merrymaking.
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Such Saturnalias are not uncommon at some stages of social evolution.
From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer