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movable feasts

movable feasts is the plural of movable feast.

Meaning of movable feast

Noun

movable feast (plural movable feasts)

  1. A day of note, frequently a Christian festival, whose date changes from year to year according to a set of rules.
    • The Sementivae was a movable feast in January for the spring sowing with offerings made to Tellus and Ceres, agricultural deities.2015, James W. Ermatinger, The World of Ancient Rome, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 317

Questions about movable feasts

What is movable feasts the plural of?
Movable feasts is the plural of movable feast.

Words near movable feasts in the dictionary

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  9. movable property
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