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festal

adj

Etymology

From Middle French festal, from Latin festum (“feast”).

  1. derived from festum
  2. borrowed from festal

Definitions

  1. festive, relating to a festival or feast

    • His wife had decorated it all up with hollyhocks and poison ivy, and it looked real festal and bowery.
    • They were, at any rate in their inception, genuinely religious or genuinely social and festal; and from either point of view they were far better than the secrecy of private indulgence which characterizes our modern world in these matters.
    • Amidst this fetor the Burmese masses live their festal and contemplative existences.

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