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[ noun ] a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration
Used in print (Irving Fineman, Woman of Valor: The Life of Henrietta...)And she wrote the libretto for an oratorio on the subject of Judas_Maccabeus performed at the Hanukkah festival which came in December . (Jesse Hill Ford, Mountains of Gilead....)She glanced at the man nodding beside her , a man with weather cracks furrowed into his lean cheeks , with powdery pale eyes reflecting all the droughts he had seen , reflecting the sky and the drought which must follow now in August - yes , with eyes predicting the drought and here it was only June , only festival time again and thoughts of Gratt_Shafer would not leave her . Related terms |
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[ noun ] an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place)
Examples "a drama festival" |
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