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moveable feast

moveable feast is the alternative form 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

Forms of moveable feast

pluralmoveable feasts

Questions about moveable feast

What is moveable feast the alternative form of?
Moveable feast is the alternative form of movable feast.

Words near moveable feast in the dictionary

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  10. moveableness
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