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religious festival

n. a festival having religious significance [syn: church festival]

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Religious festival

A religious festival is a time of special importance marked by adherents to that religion. Religious festivals are commonly celebrated on recurring cycles in a calendar year or lunar calendar. Hundreds of very different religious festivals are held around the world each year.

Usage examples of "religious festival".

By early evening, the central cauldron was full of soup or stew and all available surfaces were covered with brie tart, humble, galantine, and eel pie, haslet for the hunters, leek dishes for the lustful as well as meat laid out ready for the spit and an odd assortment of other viands depending on who was in town for what religious festival.

He dressed himself in women's clothing and got himself into Caesar's house at a time when a religious festival was in process which only women could attend.

The Mandans celebrated their great religious festival above described in the season when the willow is first in leaf, and a dove is mixed up in the ceremonies.

Perhaps the Greeks wanted to preserve the solemn, dignified air of their drama (part of a religious festival).

That was the most important religious festival in Tawantiinsuuju, the solemn feast of the sun.

However, Vitellius himself accompanied Herod Antipas to Jerusalem, to offer sacrifices and take part in a religious festival that was about to begin.

There had been a religious festival and procession earlier in the day, and these were worshippers and revellers returning to the outlying villages around Avaris.