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Feast

noun

A ceremonial dinner party for many people. Synonym: banquet.

Something experienced with great delight.

A meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed. Synonyms: banquet, spread. "The Thanksgiving feast" , "They put out quite a spread"

An elaborate party (often outdoors). Synonyms: fete, fiesta.

verb

(past & past part. feasted; pres. part. feasting)

Partake in a feast or banquet. Synonyms: banquet, junket.

Provide a feast or banquet for. Synonyms: banquet, junket.

Gratify. Synonym: feed.

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... the feastdays of the saints. It struck the non-Italian members of the Council of Basle as something strange that the Archbishop of Milan should summon Aeneas Sylvius, who was then unordained, to deliver a public discourse at the feast of Saint Ambrose; but they suffered it in spite of the murmurs of the theologians, and listened to the speaker with the ...

— The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy • Jacob Burckhardt

... have I seen at a Sheriff's Feast have better Faces, or worn so good Clothes; and by the Lord Harry, if these be of the gentle Craft, I'd not give a Real for an ...

— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. I (of 6) • Aphra Behn

... and finally he allowed her to have her way. She quitted his side and approached Giovanni, her fine countenance wearing a bewitching smile as seductive as that of a Scandinavian valkyria ministering at the feast of heroes in the ...

— Monte-Cristo's Daughter • Edmund Flagg

... conflict. Down at Wrotham there were floods of tears. In the end, Bella effected a compromise; the marriage was to be at a church, but in the greatest possible privacy. No carriages, no gala dresses, no invitations, no wedding feast; the bare indispensable formalities. And so it came to pass. Earwaker and the girl's governess were the only strangers present, when, on a morning of June, Malkin and Bella were declared by the Church to be henceforth one and indivisible. The bride wore a graceful ...

— Born in Exile • George Gissing

... dish composed at sea of junk, rice, onions, and fowls; it figured at the marriage feast of Commodore Trunnion. It is derived ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

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