movable feast
English
Alternative forms
Noun
movable feast (plural movable feasts)
- A day of note, frequently a Christian festival, whose date changes from year to year according to a set of rules.
- 2015, James W. Ermatinger, The World of Ancient Rome, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 317:
- The Sementivae was a movable feast in January for the spring sowing with offerings made to Tellus and Ceres, agricultural deities.
Antonyms
- fixed feast
- immovable feast
Hyponyms
Translations
a day of note
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Further reading
moveable feast on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “movable feast”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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