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A term referring to a port visit in Portland, Oregon during the highly anticipated Rose Festival, which is held annually in June.
Noun. Festival. This abbreviated form is used less to mean a celebratory event, but more an eventful over-indulgence in expressions such as drug fest or beer fest.
n. The liquid animal tranquilizer Ketamine usually dried, diced and snorted. Popular at raves which are now promoted music festivals.Â
Noun. Of women's underwear, large, roomy bloomers, not briefs. A pun on the action of large underwear making sure everything is gathered in, such as is done at harvest festivals.
Short for Wellington boots, a type of rubber boot... great for music festivals when it rains
Wingding is slang for a lively party or festival.
ravers term for festivals
aboriginal festival dance
Noun. A person whose looks share that of the 'hippie' travellers of the 1990s and being stereotypically scruffy, with long dredded hair, wearing boots and black clothes; generally having the appearance of being homeless. Usually derog. E.g."I used to enjoy my local music festival, but these days it's just full of crusties drinking cider and smoking weed."
an Aboriginal gahtering/dance festival.
Surf session. Example: “Let’s get the festival on before the wind comes up.
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An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess.
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Occurring or observed every eleventh year; belonging to, or continuing, a period of eleven years; undecennary; as, an undecennial festival.
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Festival games celebrated once in three years.
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The evening of Epiphany, or the twelfth day after Christmas, observed as a festival by various churches.
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Public moneys expended at Athens on festivals, sacrifices, and public entertainments (especially theatrical performances), and in gifts to the people; -- also called theoric fund.
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A day on which work is performed, as distinguished from Sunday, festivals, etc., a working day.
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A festival celebrated annually by the Romans on February 23 in honor of Terminus, the god of boundaries.
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A festival procession.
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A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
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The seventh year, observed among the Israelites as one of rest and festival.
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Bought at the festival of St. Audrey.
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Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful.
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A token of respect or honor for some distinguished or official personage, for a foreign vessel or flag, or for some festival or event, as by presenting arms, by a discharge of cannon, volleys of small arms, dipping the colors or the topsails, etc.
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A festival in honor of the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elisabeth, mother of John the Baptist, celebrated on the second of July.
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The seventh Sunday, and the fiftieth day, after Easter; a festival of the church in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost; Pentecost; -- so called, it is said, because, in the primitive church, those who had been newly baptized appeared at church between Easter and Pentecost in white garments.
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A kind of rural festival at the dedication of a church, when the parishioners brought rushes to strew the church.
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A group or series of four dramatic pieces, three tragedies and one satyric, or comic, piece (or sometimes four tragedies), represented consequently on the Attic stage at the Dionysiac festival.
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The festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves.
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A festival of singers; a German singing festival.
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An ornamented cake distributed among friends or visitors on the festival of Twelfth-night.
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