A day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration

Usage examples of festival.

Weavers travelled from town to village to city, appearing at festivals or gatherings, teaching the common folk to recognise the Aberrant in their midst, urging them to give up the creatures that hid among them.

Immediately before the battle of Verona, he visited the tent of his mother and sister, and requested, that on a day, the most illustrious festival of his life, they would adorn him with the rich garments which they had worked with their own hands.

The coincidence of this festival with the Assumption gave rise to adulatory rodomontades of the most absurd description.

Seregil and Sir Alec will be back in town in time for the Sakor Festival.

But the Saxon was imperious, the Romans were impatient, the festival of the coronation was disturbed by the secret conflict of prerogative and freedom, and Otho commanded his sword-bearer not to stir from his person, lest he should be assaulted and murdered at the foot of the altar.

In the days following the Paradise festival, Miss Azimuth explained these things to Cassia as they sat together in the silken tent.

As Yama approached the shrine, fluttering banderoles of all colors bled into the white light, as if it was a window that had turned toward a festival sky.

In a quarter of an hour the rest of the family came in, and I proffered my invitation for the following Sunday, which happened to be the Festival of St.

The curate came back and returned me the ring, saying that it could not be pledged until the day after the morrow, in consequence of the Festival of the Holy Virgin.

Stilicho resolved to attack the Christian Goths, whilst they were devoutly employed in celebrating the festival of Easter.

They seldom laugh or smile, even under the inspiration of chicha, and months of intercourse with them did not discover to us the power of song, though Villavicencio says they do sometimes intone fragments of prose in their festival orgies.

Out of feast-time they are out of town, and during the festival they are loth to leave, or are so full of chicha they do not know what they want.

There are houses that hold fifty in Tardengk, owned by one, clothes that we would put only on a demarch at a festival being worn by ordinary citizens every day, jewelry I would not have dreamed possible.

Festival Committee, the group who first had the idea of paving Saturn with hot-hydrogen balloons -- but over the course of a complete diurn, almost forty thousand seconds, a pattern begins to emerge.

Festival Committee, the group who first had the idea of paving Saturn with hot-hydrogen balloons but over the course of a complete diurn, almost forty thousand seconds, a pattern begins to emerge.