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Fiesta   /fiˈɛstə/   Listen
noun
Fiesta  n.  
1.
Among Spanish, a religious festival; a saint's day or holiday; also, a holiday or festivity. "Even... a bullfight is a fiesta." "Some fiesta, when all the surrounding population were expected to turn out in holiday dress for merriment."
2.
An organized series of acts and performances.
Synonyms: festival, feast, fete.





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"Fiesta" Quotes from Famous Books



... sacristan's little daughter was trying to fold it up. She was wearing a tinsel crown. The crown really belonged to St. Augustine. But it had been cut too big: it fell down over his cheeks like a collar: you never saw anything so absurd. One of the canons had unhooked it just before the FIESTA began, and had given it to ...
— Where Angels Fear to Tread • E. M. Forster
... ceremony or series of rites which are connected intimately with bees and honey. Landa (1864, p. 292)[300-[]] states that in the month Tzoz the natives prepare for a ceremony in behalf of the bees which takes place in the following month, Tzec. In the month Mol another fiesta is undertaken in behalf of these insects so that the gods may provide an abundance of flowers for the bees (Landa, ...
— Animal Figures in the Maya Codices • Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen
... decoy cock, together with the snares of running-nooses and all the parts of the trap. While they were looking for a good spot to drive in the stakes for the snare, they heard the voice of Tagamaling in the trees, saying, "Duling, Duling, come in! My mother is making a little fiesta here." ...
— Philippine Folk-Tales • Clara Kern Bayliss, Berton L. Maxfield, W. H. Millington,
... with small social triumphs. For one, Lola was chosen to sit with three other tots, the most beautiful of Tewana's children, at the feet of the Virgin in the Theophany of the "Black Christ" at the eastern fiesta. From morning to mirk midnight, it was a hard vigil. By day the vaulted church reeked incense; by night a thousand candles guttered under the dark arches, sorely afflicting small, weary eyelids; yet Lola sat it out like a small thoroughbred, earning ...
— The Spinner's Book of Fiction • Various


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